Ara Balears in English - learn

Performing without learning

Maria Llull — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 07:00:46 +0000

To begin, I want to formulate a thesis: academic performance has nothing to do with the pleasure of learning, with the layer of knowledge that shapes us as people and gives us a worldview. Academic performance is rude. Just consider that it's expressed with a decontextualized, depersonalized, inhuman number... In short, rude, in the sense of crude, lacking refinement.

Cognitive inequality

David Abril — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 06:30:47 +0000

Several years after the pandemic, which accelerated the digitalization of society, children are arriving at our schools unable to even maintain eye contact, neither with each other nor with an adult. This is especially true for low-income families, because although screen use affects us all regardless of our circumstances, these families face the greatest difficulties in accessing educational and parenting resources for their children that don't involve the 'easy' solution of staying home and plugging into an increasingly complex screen—be it television, mobile phone, or other devices, thanks to the influence of the internet and social media. These children, like many teenagers, have socialized more with screens than with their peers, which would give them a certain 'mastery' of digital tools were it not for their lack of maturity for responsible use.

20 Things I've Learned in My Twenties

Alba Tarragó — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 14:53:34 +0000

I'm saying goodbye to my twenties and beginning my thirties. In a couple of days, I'm supposed to enter true adulthood, although—for all practical purposes—the only change I'm going to experience is the immediate loss of all my Carnet Jove discounts. I've been assuming we're 30-year-olds for so long—that's what happens when you turn 30 at the end of September—that I don't feel like I'm entering this decade, but rather rushing in, lifting a weight off my shoulders, as if it were already late. Until now, I felt in limbo: there were no longer any justifications for doing certain things, because I was already 29 (going out partying on a random weekday, for example); but also certain other things, because I was still 29 (deciding to stay in on a Saturday night, for example). Twenty-nine is like honey and sugar, like a free year's subscription to your twenties, that is, without any benefits. Or like a sabbatical year, one of those people take to reflect before making a decision. It's just that 30 doesn't happen for you (although there are those who, voluntarily or involuntarily, end up stuck in their twenties forever). Thirty arrives, period.