Are You From Science or Literature? the Question to Teenagers that Should Be Reformulated

El Pais

Lean Left

Factuality

Ownership

At 15 or 16 years of age, when identity is still being formed, thousands of teenagers face each course with a seemingly simple and yet deeply determining question: “Are you science or lyrics?” What the educational system presents as an academic choice works in practice as an identity label. And not always innocuous. “As if the complexity of a human being fits in two poorly labeled drawers,” sums up Mercedes Gil Hernández, director of Montessori …