#WORLD #WORLDWIDE #FRANCE #ANARCHISM #LIBRARY #News #Journal #Update - (en) #France, UCL AL #333 - Culture, Read: Barbiana School, "Letter to a teacher" (ca, de, it, fr, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 At the end of the 1960s, eight teenagers from Barbiana, a hamlet located about

thirty kilometers from Florence, helped by their teacher, Don Lorenzo Milani,
collectively wrote a Letter to a Teacher. ---- At the end of the 1960s, eight
teenagers from Barbiana, a hamlet located about thirty kilometers from Florence,
helped by their teacher, Don Lorenzo Milani, collectively wrote a Letter to a
Teacher. ---- Rejected from the Italian school system, they denounce its
injustice, inhumanity, elitism, structural dysfunctions, and explain their anger
against this school which rejects the children of the poor and the teachers who
constitute a privileged class which above all defends its privileges. Braving "
the shyness of the poor ", these children of mountain dwellers organize
themselves to give shape to their words, their grievances and their demands. They
compare " cheap education " offered to them by the State and that set up in
Barbiana : a school in the morning against a full-time school, Sunday included, a
school for those who follow against a school for all, attentive to those who have
not understood and where we pass on to others what we know. The charge is as
formidable as it is argued.

They castigate " a class that did not hesitate to unleash fascism, war,
unemployment ". Criticism of the reproductive school formulated by those who
suffer from it, published in 1967, we understand why this work participated in
igniting Italy.

Ernest London (UCL Le Puy-en-Velay)

The Barbiana school, Letter to a teacher, Agone, 2022, 208 pages, 19 euros.

https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Lire-L-ecole-de-Barbiana-Lettre-a-une-enseignante
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