Education for social beings

Interview with Education Minister Aristóbulo Isturiz
By Sarah Wagner and Gregory Wilpert

Co-responsibility means that the State is not a paternalistic state, but instead that the people have duties as well as rights. It is necessary to take on the big job of creating this consciousness in people of their duties, in order that together they can have the capacity to resolve, not only to complain that they have problems but also that they have to participate in the solution and the search for the solution of the problem. Due to this, the democracy that we are constructing is a participatory democracy.