THE COOPERATIVE SYSTEM IN THE AGRICULTURAL TECHNICAL FORMATION’S

contradictions of the cooperative-scholl

Abstract

In his Preface to Frantz Fanon’s classic on decolonization, The Wretched of the Earth Sartre wrote in 1961: “Not so very long ago, the earth numbered two thousand million inhabitants: five hundred million men, and one thousand five hundred million natives. The former had the Word; the others had the use of it.” In the colonialist view denounced by Fanon and Sartre the “center” thinks, speaks and writes. The “periphery” consumes and reproduces the words of the center. Has this problem been overcome today in our universities? Examining the extensive documentation produced during the discussions on University Reform, I realized how often one comes across the concern that Brazilian universities should overcome the chronic forms of colonialism that have accompanied it from the very beginning. In this article I discuss facts, situations, views and academic fads that reveal gross forms of colonialism and reflect on what should be done in order that the University Reform that is already being debated in the Brazilian Congress produces that university that Anísio Teixeira and his peers dreamt about when they thought about the project for the University of Brasília. In their view, Brazil should at last have a university that would not be a “fake university,” but an institution designed to reflect on “Brazil as problem,” in the words of Darcy Ribeiro. We have the right to expect and the duty to mobilize ourselves so that the dream does not perish in the discussions and decisions by the Brazilian Congress.