Zwajgian school

This is how the famous writer Stefan Zweig described the school he studied in: in that tragically weak and emotional time, when youth is searching for the unfathomable meaning of life, the school should be the place of formation, where you can find warmth, understanding, readiness, care , trust, the opposite happens. The school becomes a "hateful threshold", "school barracks", "prison of youth". Zwajg continues: "I cannot say that I have ever been happy, calm, during the monotonous school activity, empty of feeling and intelligence, which deeply saddened us the most beautiful and free era of life". School takes on the form of a routine and becomes a ritual to participate in obediently. Custodian of this breathing rite, the teacher exerts a great power over the future of the students. For this reason, they will undergo the rite, accept it by pretending to approve. It continues further: "school was for us an obligation, boredom, despair, it was a place where you had to swallow part - part 'the knowledge of what is not worth knowing', ie. school material, or school junk that we felt was out of date with any personal interest. It was a boring and empty learning, not for life but for school forced by ancient pedagogy'. Of course, there could not be a school to fit such a genius, but the question arises: what can we say about our schools today? - Of course, there is no more ancient pedagogy, but, focusing only on the external appearance and without going into other problems and without denying the fact of the construction and repair of many schools, when we look at a large number of schools built before the 90s , remember these words. Wires on armored windows and doors; even with guards who sometimes lock the doors with a key. These wires inherited from the communist era, where the breaking of the school by any child was interpreted as a political act, should be removed. We have experienced and are hearing about many dangers such as floods in Italy, Greece, Libya, not to leave the Mediterranean, fires, not to mention the biggest danger like the one we went through four years ago, which Turkey and recently Morocco went through. many other countries. Far be it, but these disasters transform schools from educational institutions into traps. The human being stands out as a being that sets traps for other living things, but also for itself. Often stunning dwellings, which constitute the pinnacle of architectural achievement, focused only on form, turn into death traps. The removal of these wires is not expensive and can be done gradually by testing the results of the educational work of the schools themselves. Where schools are wireless and no one breaks in to steal and break in, it means that education has worked. Only the directories, where the basic documentation is stored, should be armored. At the end of the day, there is no need for any didactic tools, often they are more at the service of the plastic industry than the didactic activity.