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• The lawyer, economist and scientist Eduard Punset
• yesterday defended the urgent need educational reform because "we have a system that serves to provide work for young people", which is obsolete, as it "has not changed since the Industrial Revolution." The new model proposed Punset is beginning to apply to the Department of Elementary Education of the University Camilo José Cela and advocates for teaching children understand and control their emotions, resolve conflicts in an innovative manner, not screaming and slapping, as well as teamwork and collaboration, not competitively. Nearly 700 people attended yesterday the auditorium of the University of La Laguna (ULL) to listen to Punset and educational vision of reality or the importance of "emotional education", also for employers, although their proposals focused initiatives that will take some years.

This conference was part of the activities of the university job Forum Itinera program (linked to the Enterprise Foundation ULL), where students could leave their curricula to the Canary Island Brewing Company, Disa and Mapfre, publicizing the work of volunteers in the IASS and SINPROMI or the latest information on scholarships, postgraduate or practice. All this in a dozen stands located outside the Faculty of Economics. In addition, during the morning, 24 volunteers microworkshops and taught students to record their own video presentation for business. Ambitious reform

However, the act becomes more accepted was the interview with Eduard Punset in the auditorium at the hands of journalist Roberto González canary, in which the host of Network addressed the need to implement social learning at Children, to "reduce the levels of violence and increase of altruism, generosity or compassion," he said. The model is part of an ambitious school reform and is already being applied in Anglo-Saxon countries.

The main reason they were the high rates of youth unemployment in Spain and that purely theoretical knowledge taught in secondary schools are obsolete. "We're finding that young people today are not working and everyone wonders how or why. We have to change the educational system and add new materials themselves will help them find work." Punset said that Spain and Europe have an education system that was designed for the Industrial Revolution (which began in England in the late eighteenth century) and was designed for young people to find work to finish his studies "but that has nothing to do with business demand and current scientific knowledge. So, is inevitable to apply models of emotional intelligence and education and highlighted the group's North American neurologists and psychologists led by Goldman and Kraemer. In fact, Network Foundation, which runs Punset is collaborating in this model arrives in Spain and adapt to the reality of the country, an initiative carried out in Private University Camilo José Cela. Step

public sector system in this social and emotional learning, "they are training 50 teachers and, by September, will the hundreds, hoping that in a year, expand the public sector." Punset defended already shown that this educational model achieves less consumption of drugs and better academic results.

One of its main pillars is to educate on diversity, at least between three and seven years for children to "adapt to a globalized world full of different cultures, but also to learn what they have in common these people as disparate and manage basic and universal emotions such as contempt, anger or happiness, "she added. recalled that the vast majority of human decisions and actions are based on intuition, the unconscious, whose effectiveness has been demonstrated in many parts of the experience accumulated, and that very few thousand years that mankind uses sound procedures.

But among the urgent reforms, Eduard Punset also highlighted the "reconcile knowledge and entertainment, it will be the big revolution in the coming years and not only in schools but also in the business, leisure or partner. Do not believe the bloody letter comes, "he said. GALDON SONIA
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