Minister Héctor Rodríguez proposes more reading and less social networks

Published at: 05/11/2024 04:16 PM

The Minister of Education, Héctor Rodríguez, confirmed this Tuesday that one of the serious problems faced by training in schools or lyceums today is the use of telephones and social networks, and he proposed to combat this by organizing students in relation to the time they spend in front of screens.

“Phones and social networks are a problem for the training of boys. How difficult it has been to teach today with social networks (...) There are studies that say that children from 0 to 5 years old who are exposed to screens, their brain is developing more slowly, there are already studies that say that the telephone and social networks are considered drugs, that they generate addiction and that although you know that they are harmful and you want to take off, how much does it cost to get off the phone!” , warned when supervising the Benilde Ascanio National Educational Complex, in the La Vega parish of Caracas.

He said that there are children and teenagers who spend two, three hours a day on the phone, even more time. “Imagine if they dedicated two or three hours a day to four, to singing, to reading, to physics, to mathematics, to biology. What would we be as a country?” , he reflected.

The minister revealed that the level of attention of boys is decreasing due to this dynamic generated by social networks.

He also reiterated that education currently has very strong complexities, “and it's up to all of us to row to overcome these difficulties.”

The Benilde Ascanio school has an enrollment of 1,875 students, and serves students from the parishes of La Vega, Macarao, El Junquito, Antímano and part of Caricuao.

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