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Welcome to Monday, where both the northern and southern fronts are open in Gaza, Putin fires his defense minister and Taylor Swift’s youngest fan sparks heated online debate. Meanwhile, Julián De Zubiría Samper in Colombian daily El Espectador writes that 300 years on, German philosopher Immanuel Kant still has a thing or two to teach us about education.

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Barcelona-based daily newspaper El Periódico features leader of the Catalan Socialist Party (PSC) Salvador Illa as he celebrates a clear win in Catalonia’s regional elections. With 99% of votes counted PSC has won 42 seats, beating Catalan nationalist parties including Catalan Republican Left and meaning that nationalist parties no longer control Catalonia’s regional parliament. Support for Catalan independence has dropped to 42%, from 49% in 2017.

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Israel is fighting on two fronts in Gaza. Israeli forces pushed into northern Gaza to recapture an area it had claimed to have pushed out Hamas several months ago. This comes as Israeli tanks and troops pushed across a highway into Rafah, the southern Gaza city where more than one million Palestinians are seeking shelter. Here’s a story Worldcrunch translated from Arabic-language media Daraj about the families in Gaza who choose to split up to avoid the absolute worst-case scenario: annihilation.

Vladimir Putin has removed Sergei Shoigu as defense minister. The 68-year-old, who had been in the nation’s top military role since 2012, is to be appointed secretary of Russia's Security Council. Shoigu will be replaced by economist and Deputy Prime Minister Andrei Belousov. Meanwhile, Russia said it had captured four more villages in Ukraine's Kharkiv region, as thousands of residents were evacuated from an area where Russian troops were repelled in 2022.

Thousands of Georgians joined new protests against a Russian-styled “foreign agents” bill. This comes after the government insisted it would push ahead with the legislation even after some of the largest protests since independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. The bill targets civil society organizations and independent media that receive foreign funding. For more, read this recent analysis by France Inter’s Pierre Haski: A New Ukraine? How Georgia Has Been Swept Into Russia-Europe Power Struggle.

British police have charged three men with assisting Hong Kong’s foreign intelligence service. The men were detained alongside several others during a series of raids across the United Kingdom last week. The operation is the latest in a spate of action against suspected Russian and Chinese spies across Europe.

A Chinese citizen journalist jailed for COVID reporting is due to be released Monday. Zhang Zhan, a former lawyer, was one of the few independent Chinese journalists reporting in Wuhan after 11 million people went into a complete lockdown, offering unfiltered coverage on the ground as Chinese authorities imposed tight censorship on media coverage. She was detained in May 2020 and has served four years for “picking quarrels and provoking trouble”.

Amazon announces it will invest more than $1.3 billion in its French operations. This would create more than 3,000 permanent jobs in the country. The French presidency had said on Sunday that Amazon and other companies, including GSK and Accenture would announce investments worth billions as part of the country's annual "Choose France" event, which begins on Monday. Check out an investigation by Madrid-based monthly magazine La Marea about Amazon’s greenwashing accusations in Spain.

• A photo of a baby on the floor of the pit at a Taylor Swift concert has surfaced. The incident happened Friday, on the second night of Swift’s residency at the La Défense Arena in Paris, with the picture sparked considerable controversy as to whether a 40,000-seat stadium was a safe space for an infant.

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Moral teaching: Why Kant's ideas on education are more valid than ever

The German philosopher believed education and discipline is necessary to turn youth into independent and moral adults. As the 300th anniversary of his birth is being celebrated this year, what would Kant say about the current state of affairs? And what can be learned from his teachings? asks Julián De Zubiría Samper in Colombian daily El Espectador.

💭 Kant's central thesis is that education's role is to help youngsters attain maturity, which means an ability to think freely and judge morally. He thus tackles the most important question in teaching: why teach what we are teaching? Today, he would be a critic of socio-cultural polarization as it conveys little reflection and far too much zeal. He would also reject indoctrination wherein a teacher makes students think as he or she does, violating the learner's freedom.

📖 To think then is to exercise freedom and win autonomy, and a good philosopher will not “teach” philosophy but the art of thinking. The ultimate goal of education, for Kant, was to aid pupils win their freedom and their moral and cognitive autonomy, both individually and collectively. This emphasis on the ethical and collective distances him from the “proto-romantic” Rousseau, who inclined toward spontaneity and individualism.

🤔 There are many, many people over the age of 18 in Colombia and Latin America, who have yet to become adults or mature in the Kantian sense, as they are incapable of judging independently. And Kant would surely think the same of Americans in the United States, if he were here today and informed of the candidate Donald Trump's reelection chances. What would he think of education in Argentina, where people recently voted for the angry, vociferous Javier Milei?

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