It is urgent to create a new school

With the arrival and installation of IA the young people begin to look at the future with some uncertainty. At the outset, some professions will be convicted, others will be on the tightrope and will also emerge new professions. The way this generation obtains and retains information has also changed, such as its interests and the vision of what surrounds it.

At a time of such significant changes, it is, at the very least, strange to look at school – where younger people spend most of their time and prepare for the future – and find that at the base it remains unchanging.

We are increasingly aware that students are not all the same. Each has unique and precious characteristics that, if not exploited and valued, are in danger of dissipating. Knowing that students do not learn all the same, who have no way for the same things, that each has a different ability in power. How do we insist on insisting on school as a line and montage, with a series teaching of standardized subjects that – do we know as well as they – will be largely useless for your future life? How do we not feel responsible for almost condemning the pet of each other’s curiosity and ability to be born? How should the school, which should be a space for discovery and learning, motivation, appreciation, referral according to the skills and interests of each student, can dispense with this wealth and format students to be all equal?

Pope Francis, who left us earlier this week, argued that homilies should not exceed eight minutes because he knew that after this time people would fall asleep. What about 90 -minute classes, when we know that the student concentration time is much lower? What is the goal of such long classes? And what to think of an eight -hour school day?

We are all too disciplined to fulfill a very poorly healthy program. Teachers and students feel exhausted and unmotivated, desperate parents, overwhelmed explanators, and pharmacies with pharmaceutical stock for PDHA. Are not enough indicators? The program is very extensive, teaching is very bureaucratic, which leaves little time to consolidate subjects, to pay attention to the students’ needs, curiosities and imagination, to the creativity of teachers, to have joy in discovering and taste in teaching and learning. Many of the subjects are obsolete, too abstract and uninteresting. And the solid bases, such as knowing how to think, risk, write, read and speak well, have a good mental calculation and a good general culture, give way to an amalgam of decorated content that is diluted in the article for the next test.

It is urgent to create a new school. Look at those who inhabit it. May it be, really, inclusive for everyone. Let it stop being so concerned about the results and truly worry about people: not only with students and teachers, but with every child, young and adult who is consumed and forgotten among such a dense and bureaucratic teaching.