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Roberto Vecchioni on dad, "School is not distance, it's life"

2020-10-31T10:23:37.898Z


We do not learn through a screen but by enjoying and suffering together with others "(ANSA)"School is freedom, happiness, joy, being together. It cannot be isolation in front of a screen and distance learning. School is about enjoying and suffering with others, it is participating in life because school is life ": Roberto Vecchioni - in an interview with ANSA (VIDEO) - he rejects , in no uncertain terms, distance learning and defines it as "a strong, almost fatal wound". Prof. singer-s


"School is freedom, happiness, joy, being together. It cannot be isolation in front of a screen and distance learning. School is about enjoying and suffering with others, it is participating in life because

school is life

":

Roberto Vecchioni

- in an interview with

ANSA (VIDEO)

- he

rejects

, in no uncertain terms,

distance learning and defines it as "a strong, almost fatal wound".

Prof. singer-songwriter, who has just published a new book entitled

'Lessons in flight and landing'

(Giulio Einaudi editore) addressed to the students of the time and to today's readers willing to get lost in trajectories never predictable, it recalls a "very extravagant" period in his life.

"It's a choral story - he explains - he tells when, in the 1980s, my boys and I, always on Mondays, had the bizarre habit of leaving the classroom to hang around in the parks, in the streets, in the taverns, but even in clinics or in very strange places, to give open lessons and free cultural associations. We started with a topic like Leopardi or the atom and broadened the discussion. Everyone had their say and passed from one discipline to another to understand what importance a certain discovery or a certain approach to others could have in our history ".

In Vecchioni's lessons there is room for

Socrates

, but also for contemporary myths such as

Fabrizio De Andrè

or

Alda Merini

(with a surprising unpublished poem), "always seen in a new way in an attempt to refresh their image", he explains.

That way of teaching and learning, which recalls

Aristotle

and the great Greek philosophical schools with the peripatetic way of learning, remained in the heart of Vecchioni.

There were groups in random order, with students standing, lying down, one in the other's arms.

"A way of total being together in which the rule was never to give space to the obvious, never to commonplace", explains prof.

"It was a very special class, very beautiful, curious, cultured. We spent unforgettable days together, days of madness, but it was a good madness that went beyond normality and everyday rules", he adds.

We talked a lot, we listened.

"This tangle of clouds and worlds could have lasted for a long time, but sooner or later you landed - he remembers - you always landed".

Roberto Vecchioni's school is first of all a place where one teaches without giving lessons, where no marks are given and when they are awarded they are never very high, just to feed the taste for discovery and the ability to question oneself;

even if in the end we are all passed and the grades, in some cases, are also attributed by the teacher.

The boys with their baggage of dreams and insecurities, restlessness and courage are called as the most famous painters in history and embody some of their character traits.

And the professor, that Vecchioni who taught in the 80s in a historic Milanese high school, captures the nuances of each one and offers each one a lure, a foothold to move in the space of history, literature and song.

Today the Covid-19 pandemic requires isolation

 and remote teaching, primarily for high schools, is picking up again as when we were in full lockdown.

"A pity - observes Vecchioni - because in Italy we have very good teachers, among the best in the world, who would be perfectly equipped to take the children out and teach them in a different way. Culture is not knowing but seeking. Knowing is a point. of arrival, even too firm ".

Leaving classrooms "makes me feel terrible", he confesses.

"I hope we can soon find a solution to get the kids back to class. School is being together, getting to know each other, loving each other, deprecating each other, not understanding each other ... But understanding each other later, seeing together what life is".

He addresses an invitation, a heartfelt advice, to the boys who always feel like 'his' boys: "Don't think that life is only made up of goals and arrivals, of successes and technique. First of all, you need to be trained inside.

Culture is a defense. very strong

. When you have a humanity, you can face the most practical, real things in life, but first it is the conscience, the spirit and the heart that must be trained ".

The hope is that this situation will end immediately.

"I know very well - he concludes - that the boys will make it anyway. This dramatic moment will pass and it will leave no marks".

Source: ansa

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