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not being directed to the right educational programs in Mexico, that only technical colleges are being supported by the govern- ment while universities special- izing in social sciences and busi- ness are withering. Jesús Villarreal, from the
career services department of the Technological Institute of Superior Studies of Occident, says that university students in Mexico must work to avoid becoming part of the nini gen- eration. “The social and eco- nomic system is stuck in front of an expanding population of millions of educated but un- employed young people whose future looks canceled,” he says with a grimace. “What attitudes manifest in these young people is unknown to me. The worst possibility is that many of them – because they are wandering around without direction – join the ranks of crime.” He is sympathetic and un-
derstanding of their troubles. “It can be hard to go through so many challenges just to get a job, but it must be understood that studying at university is just the beginning,” says Villar- real about living and working as a young professional in Mexico. “Nobody stops learning in the active life.” Like Oscar Rojas and
many students in Mexico, Villar- real says that to an extent the education system has failed its constituents. “But the univer-
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sity should have given to the students an intellectual founda- tion,” he says. “The education system, should have installed in them the dynamics of learning, a method to continually update their skills at work and at for- mal academic setting.” Rojas agrees. “There is
no place for critical thinking; we might say that all students are only half developing,” he says. “The students must not just repeat pre-thought content in their classes. Everyone should learn math, science, etc. But in Mexico, we have always lacked a strong core of items to discuss the problems of society, to begin critical thinking.” “We must not wait for the
government to think about what has to be done,” states Rojas. He speaks with all the confidence of an economist who has spent many years abroad researching contemporary capitalism. “We must reform the ed-
ucation system to release the backlog; we must push and ex- periment with forms of education that are most beneficial to the development of our youth. Ac- cording to an old saying, if you want different results you have to change what you have always done the same. This applies very well to the education of young professionals at university in Mexico.”
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