Enkvist: "Catalonia is an example of how education can be used for evil purposes: the nationalist indoctrination"
While receiving twentieth Tolerance Award, the Spanish scholar, essayist and educator Swedish appeals to "recover the value of truth" versus "manipulation" of nationalism. Enkvist charge against nationalism for trying to "condition thought" and "jeopardize the proper functioning of democracy."
The Spanish scholar, essayist and educator Swedish Inger Enkvist denounced Friday that "Catalonia is an example of how education can be used for evil purposes, for indoctrination" nationalist.
This has positioned during reception twentieth Tolerance Award, awarded by the Association for Tolerance, which was held in a downtown hotel in Barcelona.
Appeal to "recover the value of truth"
Enkvist has appealed to teachers, journalists and politicians to "recover the value of truth" as a way to combat the "manipulation" being made by Catalan nationalism in areas such as humanities, language, literature and history.
The educator said that this type of "lies", which also occur in other countries, is a kind of "intellectual and moral corruption." It has taken a few words of writer George Orwell to criticize nationalism for trying to "contaminate mental processes, ie condition thought", which "threatens the proper functioning of democracy."
Review the mandatory immersion in Catalan
In the ceremony of prize-where he recalled the allegation Enkvist in the regional parliament of Catalonia during the drafting of the Law on Education of Catalonia (LEC) - have also intervened Professor in Spanish language and literature Carmen Leal; Professor of English Mercè Vilarrubias; writer and philologist Pericay Xavier; and President of the Association for Tolerance, Eduardo Lopez-Dóriga.
To award the prize to Enkvist, the jury highlighted her love of teaching with the conviction that the fundamental aspects of personality are forged in the early years. As well as his staunch defense of the teaching of languages as a vehicle for the full development of the intellect, appearing opposite to the exclusion of Castilian as the language of the public education system in Catalonia.
It takes over Victoria Prego
Enkvist takes over from the journalist Victoria Prego, awarded in 2013. In the past, the prize has been awarded since 1995, went to Felix Shepherd, Regina Otaola, Xavier Pericay, Mingote Antonio Carlos Herrera, Mario Vargas Llosa, Rosa Díez, Arcadi Espada, Antonio Muñoz Molina, Iván Tubau, Fernando Savater, Felix de Azua, Gregorio Peces-Barba, Francesc de Carreras, Albert Boadella, enough is Enough! Baltasar Garzon, among others.
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