As is traditional, the new German government met at the end of January at Meseberg Palace, north of Berlin, to prepare for the parliamentary term. At the end of the meetings, Chancellor Angela Merkel and Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel reported on their plans at press conference .

Both paid special attention to project 'Good life-quality of life in Germany'. This interministerial initiative aims to find out what the German people's deepest desires and interests are. As the Chancellor explained, "the aim is to find out what concerns citizens, to find out the qualitative requirements that people associate with a good life". In order to take the pulse of people's aspirations, dialogues with citizens will be organized. Gabriel went into more detail and spoke of a hundred or so meetings planned.

At the same time, in Baden-Württemberg, the regional government discussion is reforming the teaching secondary school. What seemed to be an eminently technical project has reached national resonance due to the controversy raised around the sexual Education . From agreement with the tendency marked by political correctness, this content leaves the area of Biology and moves to Social Studies. It is thus adapted to the demands of gender ideology, which postulates that sex is more cultural than biological. In addition to the traditional heterosexual orientation, space will be devoted to homosexuality, bisexuality, transsexuality and intersexuality. This 'land' is a bastion of traditional Protestantism and various religious groups have denounced the approach of these teachings, giving rise to a nationwide controversy. I do not want to focus here on the sexual issue, but on the spirit that animates the reform. As usual in the projects of this subject that are proposed in any Western country, the law devotes particular attention to the skills and attitudes to be promote in students. For students in the fifth and sixth grades (eleven and twelve years old), a total of 202 attitudes are established (for example, 30 for the subject of language in German). In Music, the aim is to "develop in students the sensitivity towards copyright in the musical field". And, as is typical of this technocratic mentality, which aspires to measure everything, it is necessary to specify the competencies and attitudes that will be stimulated in each class or didactic unit.

The Study program is guided by five fundamental principles, which should appear in all subjects: career guidance, Education for sustainable development , training in the use of media, health prevention and Education as consumers.

We are witnessing, both in the case of the federal and regional governments, a political approach characteristic of our times: unlimited trust in the public management as tool to establish the perfect society. That way of understanding politics aims at the production of robots and not at the training of free human beings, but this seems to matter little. It is not surprising that the socialist and green government of Baden-Württemberg uses Education in the service of ideology, but the occupation of teaching by the pedagogical technocracy is not exclusive to the left. It arrived in Spain in 1970, in plenary session of the Executive Council Francoism, with the General Law of Education, and this attitude has marked the successive educational laws that we have suffered. Experienced teachers are saddened by the deterioration of the Education in our country and we are astounded by the cult of competencies and skills to which our bureaucrats devote themselves.

The government of a solid country like Germany can propose as goal the happy life of its citizens, although this business is doomed to failure, since it exceeds the scope of politics. We see the social-democratic logic in action: the State promises gold and silver and citizens get used to expecting everything from the Government (also in Spain, as sample the economist Luis Garicano in his latest book). Unfulfilled expectations need not frustrate people, since we know deep down that those promises were mere toasts to the sun. On the other hand, the planning ravings in the field of educational do have negative consequences, with irreparable damage. The victims in this case are children and adolescents, the most vulnerable group . If there is one area in which we should be particularly vigilant in order to curb the political errors, it is Education. In the face of the excesses of pedagogical technocracy, it would be enough to apply common sense, something that is within the reach of almost everyone.