Esteban Bara, author of books such as La universidad light and La universidad de las narices, points out that faculties are ceasing to be 'temples of knowledge' because current society values knowledge only as 'one more resource,' equating it to a tool.
“"There are teachers who have been teaching for 20 years and, in reality, it is one year because they have been repeating what they taught the first year for 19 years."
The professor laments that university marketing focuses almost exclusively on guaranteeing access to the job market and good salaries, instead of promoting wisdom, light, or truth, which should be the foundational objectives of the institution.
To illustrate the situation, Esteban Bara explains that first-year students cannot name any Nobel Prize winner, but instead, they unanimously know the birthplace of the singer Bustamante, in San Vicente de la Barquera.
