Education specialistPaul Standish, a professor at the University of Dundee (UK), gave a lecture at the University of Navarra in which he referred to Civic Education . According to him, "teachers need to be more aware of the value of what they teach. Currently, we have a concept of Education that is too utilitarian.

Education for citizenship is a pedagogical trend that aims at teaching human values, such as sociability and solidarity. "Subjects such as 'History' can easily teach values for citizenship; there are others in which it can be more difficult, such as mathematics. However, in all subjects the deep mysteries of human life can be addressed".

In the Education philosopher's opinion, "morality, which should permeate the whole of Education, loses its value when it focuses only on the utilitarian aspect". The need to highlight the importance of citizenship arose after seeing "the revival of social problems - such as unemployment or violence - that we thought had been buried in the United Kingdom. With the rise in crime, there has been research into the origin of these problems; to some extent it has been pointed to Education. As a result, teacher evaluation has declined.

In Professor Standish's opinion, the proposal of the Labor government called Third Way "proposes, among other things, to reintroduce confidence in moral Education through citizen Education , which is a more attractive, modern and marketable term. As soon as we talk about morality, it already sounds like prohibition".

As for youth violence, the expert from the University of Dundee noted that it is one of the problems of greatest concern to the British government. According to the Nationalassociation of Head Teachers, one in four children is bullied in the UK. This issue also affects Spain, where the Ministry of Education has recently proposed assigning 600 social educators to schools to prevent altercations. According to him, these outbreaks of violence can be quelled if the provocateurs "increase their awareness of belonging to a society".

On the other hand, Paul Standish has recognized that "educators do not yet understand the great influence that television has on children. It sample them an exaggerated, false and different world. In this way, it is more difficult for teachers to interest children when they are used to the spectacular nature of television.

However, he pointed out that "new technologies offer a great future for Education. There are currently young people who only write and communicate thanks to e-mail". Finally, he warned of the danger of Education through the Internet falling into behaviorist models, "based on stimulus and response. We cannot forget other more important dimensions of man".