AUGUST
August is a strange month: there is the sun, the beautiful weather and then suddenly a storm with hail that lowers the temperature by several degrees makes you think you are in winter. Psychiatrists would call it bipolar. Yes, in fact, they think that bipolar disorder is due to a biological clock tha…
THE FREEDOM TO CHOOSE YOUR OWN TIME
The school, in training, must reject the business model.
<<Do kids have to know what they’re going to do when they grow up? >> asks us Dr. Valeria Verna in the beautiful article “COMMUNICATIVE INTENTIONALITY” published last week on this blog, naturally calling into question the w…
COMMUNICATIVE INTENTIONALITY
That it takes cues from the cinema is not a big news, at least for those who have already read something written by me on this blog.
Some recent or less recent events reminded me of the great artist Charlie Chaplin and his silent cinema.
Certainly my work, in which I often find myself in front…
WE NEED A DIFFERENT MOVEMENT
Another year at the listening desk has passed.
I have been doing it for four years now at a high school. It is an experience that makes you rediscover the teenager in you because it is the only way to talk to the youngest, to make yourself understood and to understand them.
It was therefore an…
ADVANCING INTEGRALISMS AND MIDSUMMER APATHY
Once upon a time, not too long ago, a little less than fifty years ago, there was a civilized and secular society, where after years and years of fighting to defend women’s rights there was finally room for debate on great principles and the state, secular (or at least trying to be), finally allowed…
A river once flowed here
Climate change. Two words we have heard mentioned for so many years and yet only now do they seem to have gained meaning for each of us. The images of the Po running dry and the Marmolada glacier were a slap in the face. One of those slaps that makes you wake up from a strange numbness…it reminds m…
SADNESS AND DEPRESSION. HEALTH AND NORMALITY.
I was thinking about the meeting of June 17, about the themes and questions that the students of Grassi High School in Latina proposed in the video and I thought that these kids are not looking for a freedom tout court, they want to “rip the edges wrong” but they are not so much looking for freedom a…
YOU CAN SHARE THE “RUDDER” WITH THE STUDENTS
Reflections on the experience of this school year.
From Wednesday 22 June the State Exams began and I accompany my students of the fifth class in this last “test”. This year I feel very strongly the responsibility to be up to the task, I feel that this exam still so terribly and unnecessarily stru…
RESISTANCE IS FREEDOM
I am a thief! Yes. Because I steal from life, from the people I meet, from what happens to me every day, from art, from history.
A few days ago I chose a text to be read by one of my patients who had to exercise memory; the story described the life and story of activist Rosa Parks. In the 1950s, t…