Teresa Sádaba: "It is necessary to introduce controversy in classroom, to provoke different points of view in order to create a climate of mutual interest".

The Core Curriculum Institute celebrated the X on the aims of Education in an event that coincided with the feast of St. John Henry Newman, patron saint of the ICC. Under the degree scroll "The last dialogue of kissing. Pluralism in the classroom", the session was given by Teresa Sádaba, director of ISEM Fashion Business School and professor of Public Opinion.

Sádaba began his speech by making reference letter to the relationship between the University and controversy. Far from seeing it as a threat, he pointed out that "it is necessary to introduce it in the classroom, so that we can give different points of view that enrich the students and create climates of mutual interest". Before this challenge, he pointed out some of the obstacles that hinder pluralism in classroom, such as the spiral of silence, simplifications, or the mental representations of Public Opinion, "whose logic is far from that of the system educational, but is close to that of social networks, where participation is reduced and the reinforcement of ideas is magnified".

The session was marked by thought-provoking questions such as whether it is necessary to have "safe spaces" or whether it is possible to dialogue at classroom. In response to the fear of cancellation, Professor Sádaba stressed that "classrooms should be full of respect, trust and freedom". Likewise, the speaker made reference letter to some words of Alejandro Llano, philosopher and former President of the University of Navarra, recently deceased, to address the instructions of any university institution: "What the University has too much of today is organization. What it lacks is life. That life, as he pointed out, also includes "controversy, as we seek to try to understand and put ourselves in the other's shoes ".