An example of world's injustices

Not many days ago, we went to MACBA (Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art) with school and something a little weird happen to us. The whole art history class were in the museum with a fantastic guide when suddenly, out of the blue, a man join us and start to follow us in our visit for the museum. Anybody said nothing and in fact, I didn’t notice that he was in our group until he started to speak. I have to say that he was a little bit strange man and also, it was a strange situation! It seems that he was an expert of philosophy because he talked about different philosophers, theories and he said something that really grab my attention: “we are in an era full of images that we didn’t understand, we don’t understand our own world, it’s like we were backing instead of going on”.

Why I’m explaining this? Is not for start a philosophic debate about this statement but I would like to talk about a thing that grabs even more my attention and thta was related to this sentence. If you have traveled abroad, you will know what it’s read ads or posters in the street and feel a little strange because you don't understand anything! But imagine something worst, imagine that you don't even know read. Then, you understand less of what are around you. This, in 21st century, can seem something very strange that only happened in specific places, in specific situation and in specific people but in fact, this is a pitiful reality that is happening nowadays and not only in the “third-world”, as many of us will think, it’s something that touches us very closer because is happening  in our country.

Some days ago, I was taking an English lesson outside high school and suddenly, a group of old African immigrants (the youngest one was 50 years old) enters in the place and we asked our teacher if they were also taking English classrooms. Our English teacher explain to us that they were trying to learn write and speak our language what impress me a lot! Many of them have been living there about two or three years and they have been walking around without understanding which enveloped them and what is worst, is that except one of the five, anybody even know how to write their  own language; they were starting from scratch.

I found amazing, impressive and astonishing that I was sitting in a classroom studying English, my third language, and just at the other side, only separated by a door, a group of people was trying to learn how to write for the first time… it’s something that you can get easily. How can be that something as important as education that in our country reaches to bore most of the pupils, in other places is something that not all child have access? It’s a great injustice because educations is considered a basic right.

For this, I would like to say that I found praiseworthy what these people are doing, they are not only an example of overcoming because we have to take into account that at these ages, it’s very difficult to learn a new language and even more, start learning from the beginning: when you are a child all is simple, you are growing up and you are more receptive. Our English teacher talk about the difficulties that she have to teach and also the difficulties that they have to learn, it’s a very slow process. With this example, we can also reconsider the lucky we are for have born in a place where we can have not an easy but a compulsory access to a basic education. These people are a perfect example of the big injustices that exist in the broad 21st century and that it is in our hand change it, look them: it’s never too late for an education.