And 'round the bell to ring. And hundreds of thousands have been driving legs sheathed in jeans tucked in and resting on feet like shoes but with different brand names. The same mp3 player in my ears, the same backpack, sometimes maybe just a different color. And the same look of the bored and resigned. What becomes feverish alone in front of a screen: a netbook, a smart phone or video game generation. Expected to be another loss. To fifty professors just escaped gelminiana slaughter of the already precarious and smell of retirement culture. United by their fear of the future learners and monotony of the present.
dedicate two written appeals to both 50 years apart from each other but still both very timely. Originally designed for the students are well suited to encourage even those who now have the difficult task of educating more and more from behind the chairs:
"That the child has fallen into the trap of a school that killed the beautiful instead of exalt indicates quite how urgently we are teaching, if you do not want to fall into barbarism as a result of boredom, to create a world of wonder where it is allowed.
Guardatevi tuttavia dall'attendere aiuto o panacea da qualche salvatore supremo. Sarebbe vano, sicuramente, accordare credito a un governo, a una fazione politica, accozzaglia di gente preoccupata di sostenere prima di tutto l'interesse del loro potere vacillante; e nemmeno a tribuni e maitres à penser, personaggi massmediatici che moltiplicano la loro immagine per scongiurare la nullità che riflette lo specchio della loro esistenza quotidiana. Ma sarebbe soprattutto andare contro se stessi, inginocchiarsi come un questuante, un assistito, un inferiore, mentre l'educazione deve avere per scopo l'autonomia, l'indipendenza, la creazione di sé, senza la quale non vi è vero aiuto reciproco, autentica solidarietà, collettività without oppression.
A society that has no answer to the misery that the patronage, charity and the art of getting by is a Mafia society. Put the school under the sign of the competition is to encourage corruption, which is the morality of business.
The only service worthy of a human being is that they need to move under its own power. If the school does not teach us to fight for the will to live and not the will to power, it will condemn generations of resignation, addressed to the servants and suicide. Spill in the breath of death and barbarism of what each has in itself more alive and more human.
I do not imagine Another educational project to train with love and knowledge of what is alive. Outside of a school of life where life is endless and you try - the art of love to the mathematical speculative - there is the boredom and the dead weight of a totalitarian past. "
From Advice to Students (1995) by R. Vaneigem
"A generation of men destroyed your youth and your country. Betrayed by fraud, violence, dall'ignavia from servility criminal, you, together with youth workers and peasants, you rewriting the history of Italy and build the Italian people.
not search the memories of the past or in hiding the sole responsibility of criminal episodes, behind the killers there are a multitude that wanted those crimes and covered with the cowardly silence and resignation, is all the ruling class Italian driven by ineptitude and guilt towards his total ruin.
Students, I leave you with the hope of returning to you the master and mate, after the fraternity of a struggle fought together. For the faith that lights up, for the anger that comes on, do not let the oppressor has of your life, please raise your battalions, Italy freed from bondage and ignorance, to add your banner University of the glory of a new larger decoration supreme in this battle for justice and for peace in the world. "
appeals Rector UniPD: Prof. Concetto Marchesi students in December 1943
Photos courtesy of DC Stefan and Net Efekt
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