Debates based on dichotomies lead to the haunting of the landscape. They challenge long-term gaze and make it difficult to exercise long-term perspective. It is difficult to develop an opinion with the intention of becoming aware of the fog ahead, of taking into account the different pillars of the debate and of reaching a conclusion or consensus, even more so in a time of truth based communication. There are fewer and fewer rules and conditions on social networks for the debate to take place in a healthy environment, and the media hardly facilitates the conditions. It's hard. It requires work, special effort, but it needs to be done. Moreover, if there are debates at stake that are strategic and important to a people, such as education.

I live the situation with sorrow and concern. The agents and members of the educational community who have worked for many years picotting, with emotion-driven arguments and with smoky fog glasses. The debate is relegated to the dichotomy public education vs ikastola, while the enemy, to the warm fires, receives no looks or questions. I haven't been active in education, I haven't followed all the steps that have been taken in education in recent years, and that probably doesn't lead me to understand many of the keys to the debate, but one important thing is that I know what the enemy is, and I'm not going to feed that dichotomous framework.

As a people, it is a huge challenge to achieve social consensus in the field of education and to draft a new law. On the one hand, because the strategic value of education is undeniable, but above all because it can serve to lay the foundations of a new era of popular construction beyond the educational sphere. It is a law that was introduced three decades ago and that has many gaps: the demographic issue, segregation, the tendency to privatize, the difficulty of euskaldunizar the new generations, the vacuum in cultural transmission, the lack of feminist education, the issue of secularism… The law is exhausted and cannot continue as it has been so far. We need a new law that makes a leap in the direction of the Basque Public and Community School.

Collecting the best of each educational tradition, we must join forces for a new phase in the Basque educational system. The fog before us cannot hinder us from looking far away, to avoid acting on the perspective of the popular strategy. We cannot miss the opportunity. You can't jump without taking risks, avoiding comfort situations and giving the best of ourselves.