The (of) training of philologists and linguists at Costa Rican universities

Abstract

I confess that I intended to write this presentation more or less in the following t6rminos: "There was once many years ago a student studying Philology at the School of a University... etc., etc., etc.". And also in this other way: "Once a long time ago there was a people who lived dreaming that 'one of the main concerns of the state had always been Education, to which I allocated most of its budget' so it felt the most educated people in the world with a higher number of teachers than soldiers" (Gaetano Cersósimo , The stereotypes of Costa Rica). However, within a few days I noticed my bitterness and I gave up on starting with these "incipit", for the audience that was to listen to me is so programmed towards the connotated, the unread, the implicit, that I could understand my message in various shades when my intention today is not to make literature or present a plausible world about the education of philologists in the country , but a true world opposed to other worlds also true that others will expound during these days.
However, because of my university curriculum and personal concerns, I will comment primarily on the contradictions in education that students receive from our universities in terms of their literary training. Of course, my observations may also be extended - mutatis mutandis - to other fields of their philological formation, but at this time I will only refer to literary studies.