I was always that one child in school. Not so keen to effort. Teachers muttered about wasted potential. Mamma agreed. Friends watched, puzzled, as I made it through the system largely by test-optimised bursts of knowledge acquired last-minute, at the strategically right time. “If only he’d apply himself,” they all said. The tragedy of it …
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The Italian school is looking backwards
Education tends to reveal more than it intends. Behind every subject and syllabus, behind every reform or ministerial decree, there’s a confession: this is what we think the future looks like. Or—more poignantly—what we hope it resembles. In Italy, that confession once had a distinctly glossy look. At the turn of the millennium, Silvio Berlusconi …