Irene Vallejo, Doctor ‘Honoris Causa’ by UNED: “Who I am is the result of public education”

The writer Irene Vallejo, author of ‘The Infinite in a Junco’, has been invested Dr. ‘Honoris Causa’ at the proposal of the Faculty of Philology of the UNED and has celebrated recognition extolling public education in her speech.

“Who am I-the woman, the writer, the citizen-is the result of public education. There is no training that is not at the same time transformation. ‘Infinity in a reed’ would not exist without the training opportunities that I found in My way, “he said after having received from the Rector, Ricardo Mairal, El Birrete, the Ring, the Book and the White Gloves.

In addition, Vallejo has defended the work of the University at a distance for addressing the education of “those who face the greatest obstacles” and for making “more hospitable” the study for all those people, “whatever their condition or origin, their circumstances of their circumstances of adverse life or situations. ”

The rector of the UNED has been accompanied at the presidential table by Abelardo de la Rosa, Secretary of State for Education; Cristina Aranda, counselor of the Social Council of the UNED; Karen Vilacoba; Vice Chancellor for Institutional Relations and Communication of the UNED, and Elena Maculan, General Secretary of the UNED.

On the other hand, the godfather of the writer, the professor of Philology Antonio Moreno Hernández, stressed that Vallejo’s work is “an appeal to recover the space of the calm word in front of the vertigo of acceleration and immediacy, an invitation to return to an intimate reading and at the same time shared, “explains a statement from the institution.