A horizontal education means considering all the actors in the educational process as equal in their dignity and rights, although there are different roles among them. That there is horizontality in education means open dialogue, cooperation and tolerance, without anyone being considered more or less than the other, with respect to each one as a different and valuable person.
This does not mean that the teacher is not the authority of the classroom, but that he rules out authoritarianism, and that respect for the teacher is based on a relationship of trust and recognition of him, as a guide, since he is an example of honesty AND knowledge. That the teacher is the authority does not mean that you cannot ask them for explanations, offer arguments against their sayings or freely expose their own ideas, as long as they are not criminals.
The student is not less than the teacher, he is in a training course, he does not know what the teacher knows, and with his guide he will surely learn a lot, but the idea is not that he learns what the teacher knows, To continue finding, to transform the society in which you live in search of progress not only material, but also moral. And for this the student must be liberated (within certain limits that do not harm him or others) and not consider him a being that must limit himself to reproduce and obey.
The school must recognize differences in taste, ideas, physical appearance, nationality or religion, but without evaluating one or the other as better; And with regard to social position, to encourage everyone to achieve their goals, regardless of whether they are poor or rich, removing the vision of a world where some were born to rule and others to obey as the Greek philosophers had argued, and refuted the authors Like Paulo Freire, with his “ Pedagogy of the oppressed”, which includes as the role of the school the need for critical thinking and breaking with social differences.
The traditional school supports competition and achievements, it is vertical, to create first and second grade students, who reserve a lower scoring scale, with respect to others that it places at a higher level in this hierarchical organization. The various social positions of the individual are considered more natural than cultural.
