Don Milani, priest and educator of great intelligence and foresight, arrived in Barbiana felt that the lack of culture was a real obstacle to the elevation of social and civil people. He decided to organize a night school for young workers and peasants.
Among his writings we trace these sentences:
"The school was the good of the working class, recreation ruin." For Don Milani
then the school was the means to give voice to the poor because they become more free and more equal. Convise the poor that their interest was not to waste time at the bar or playing football, that was just the interests of the powerful to control them better, school, education would have allowed them to reverse the order of groped social ladder.
To explain this, Don Milani said:
"You do not know read the first page of the newspaper, the one that counts, and how desperate you throw on the sports pages. And who controls that you want it, because who knows how to read the first page of the newspaper will be the master of the world tomorrow. "
Already in these few sentences can be discerned, the transforming power of this man who did the words follow. Instituted his school, which accepted many students lost from mainstream schools, and already marginalized out of the possibility of following up the social ladder and together they built the Don Milani and his approach was radically changed the conception of education that so far they had in Italian society.
Think back to the data on illiteracy among the fifteen (or so), leaving only a few days ago, we think the rate of youth unemployment, we think the number of kids who start college and then drop out without graduating, we allla Gelmini reform (from kindergarten to university).
After we made a clear image, putting them side by side all these images, think back to what it said Don Milani and compare it with real goals that are behind the management (and organization) of the school in Italy.
Is it not true today for many is impossible to climb the social ladder and that there are no new huge and unbridgeable gaps between people from different social and cultural?
cuts to the school, college, culture and research, did not exactly lead to maximize control (via a low level of media and information) of the ruling classes and provided with power (almost passed) and irreversibly block of the social scale? Don Milani
departed from reading the newspaper, reading a true and Try hard to think about the questions raised, the manner in which they were proposed, on writing, on the bias and accuracy. In short, a real studio, which developed the critical thinking, while allowing the students to acquire the linguistic tools and excellent comprehension.
Why not start today from here? But not a quick read and quick on the structure of the text or language newspaper, but on the content, the thoughts and ideas behind every editorial line, as well as the power games that are hidden.
would be useful and would be a good antidote to the relentless work of cancellation of conscience and critical thinking skills of people, especially children and adolescents, and young people who can change the fate of this country if you become aware of their strength. The school will have space
bha many newspapers, different, but the reading will be done on the Don Milani model and not so much as a tool for understanding the structure of a newspaper article.
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