YOU and Your Schoolchild
The
whole truth about School
by Horst Költze and Maria Teresa De Donato
Review by Prof. Elisabetta Fioritti
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A
publication that speaks to all of us because children are our future and our
human value, and their education constitutes the fundamental means of growth
and progress of human and civil society.
The
authors denounce the limits of a school founded on narrow evaluation schemes,
which cannot include the many facets of a budding personality, such as that of
a young, growing student. In this regard, Horst recalls and re-evaluates the
Socratic teaching method, which can extract man's best potential. In contrast,
the method used today by schools and envisaged by the OECD is restrictive and
predetermined, responding to economic principles rather than ethical, making
the student a product, no more and no less.
We must
always remember that education is a social organism, not a machine. The authors
reiterate this concept because the student should not be considered a
"durable consumer good," as Nobel Prize winner Gary S. Becker of
Chicago claims. This attitude derives from the idea of competition and
efficiency related to the market, principles that, when extended to human
beings, can only have catastrophic consequences, such as students getting sick,
teachers resigning, and desperate parents. According to the authors, the OECD
has succeeded in transforming the "safe haven of schools" into an
area of global competition, with standardized results according to the PISA
indicator.
This
vision of man is reductive and mechanistic; it limits the individual's freedom.
He,
therefore, calls for a peaceful revolution whose motto could be "For free
students in a free society."
Without
wanting to go into the merits of the writing, which I also invite you to read,
I want to thank the authors for this exciting conference on the world of
school, which remains our excellent means of evolution and human development
and which embraces the differences and infinite potential of young people
generations, who must be helped to grow as a whole, to form a free and evolved
society, also through action, which translates into "Friday for
Education," for a peaceful educational revolution.
I renew
my appeal to read this exciting publication, and I thank the authors for giving
me this opportunity.
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