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The Mayor of Murcia opens the Futuro en Español international forum at the Palacio Almudí, with the presence of top-level intellectuals, diplomats, writers, academics and journalists, both from Latin America and from our country.
Ballesta points out that "in order to succeed, we need value and values, personal value and ideological values", in the paper 'Education and culture, keys for the diffusion of values'.
The Mayor of Murcia, José Ballesta, today inaugurated at the Palacio Almudí the 'Future in Spanish' conference organized by Vocento, the most relevant business and cultural exchange forum on the Spanish-speaking world, which hosts the city of Murcia for the first time, and which has counted with the presence of intellectuals, diplomats, writers, academics and top-level journalists, both from Latin America and from our country.
During his speech in the paper 'Education and culture, keys for the dissemination of values', José Ballesta stressed that "to get ahead need value and values.
Value in the personal and values ​​in the ideological "and added that" in this time of crisis we need a new Renaissance;
return to humanistic values ​​that we should never lose. "
"Human beings hold ideas and ideologies, but it is values ​​and convictions that sustain us.
It is necessary that spirit and ideals prevail over the desire for power, that work and sacrifice replace the minimum effort and that the common project conscience and collective commitment replace individualism and selfishness, "argued the mayor.
In the presentation moderated by the Costa Rican ambassador in Spain, Doris Osterlof, in which the mayor participated along with the rector of the EAFIT University and former Minister of Culture of Colombia, Juan Luis Mejía, and the director of the Royal Spanish Academy of the language, Darío Villanueva, the mayor of Murcia said that "education and, above all, authentic teachers are more necessary than ever" and argued that "science and culture are the best inheritance that adult generations can offer the young people and the greatest wealth that a nation can generate ".
José Ballesta stressed that "progress is made with education, and only with education" and advocated a new Renaissance in which "teachers, first of all and after all, have made humanism a way of living and thinking, a lifestyle, since with education we play for equality and our freedom ".
The vice president of the European Parliament, Ramón Luis Valcárcel, the director for Europe of CAF- Development Bank of Latin America, Guillermo Fernández de Soto, the writer and former Minister of Culture of the Government of Spain, César Antonio, also spoke this morning at the congress. Molina, and the editorial director of Regional Media and Magazines in Vocento, Benjamín Lana, among other speakers.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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