WORLD WORLDWIDE ITALY News Journal Update - (en) Italy, Umanita Nova: Maturity 2023: government traps and student wisdom (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 In the end it was student wisdom that won, that mixture of grim hostility,

distrust and spirit of self-preservation that characterizes those who know how to
face the enemy with unequal weapons. ---- The traces of maturity 2023 had tried
hard to attract into the slippery spiral of regime conformism, but the students,
in a very high percentage, smelled burning and avoided the trap. The seven tracks
proposed this year in the shadow of the Meloni government, which has made trench
terrain out of the ideological campaign and therefore out of the school, were
characterized, albeit to varying degrees and with various nuances not even so
disguised, by the re-proposition of the triad god-fatherland-family.
It began with an invocation to God and to creationism taken from the work of the
ineffable Quasimodo; this is the first trace of text analysis. We then proceeded
with the theme of the dissolution of the family: starting piece "gli
Indifferenti" of Moravia, to be analyzed in the light of the anti-bourgeois
criticism typical of so much fascist rhetoric. The choices could then be oriented
on the political judgments expressed by Oriana Fallaci regarding decision-making
responsibility in historical processes; or on the value of the concept of nation
starting from a text by Chabod, in reality only a pretext to immerse oneself in
the purifying waters of the healthy nationalist bath. The real pearl, however,
was represented by the letter-document dated 2021 with which some academics
pilloried Minister Bianchi, in charge of education until last September, guilty
of not having included the writings in the last maturity sessions due to the
covid. The candidate was invited to blame Minister Bianchi and to swear the
eulogy of the written exams, reintroduced in this session, under this government,
exams that the students were taking at that very moment. In short, the
meta-theme: an almost surreal situation. Girls and boys who are sweating on a
written exam, who hate with all their strength the situation they are forced into
on a hot day at the end of June, who are forced to sing the praises of the test
they are carrying out and the effort they are doing: crazy stuff.

Bianchi was a terrible minister, but that Valditara thinks he can play on student
flattery on exam day in order to be able to denigrate his predecessor is
something that would have been difficult to arrive at even if only with the
imagination. And instead it happened. Perhaps the most obvious manifestation of
how much the regime manifested itself on that July 21st to the Italian student
population born in 2004.

However, as we said, the students didn't take the bait; they quickly identified
two other traces that didn't smell too much of the regime and were limited to
being stale in their apparent modernity: there was Piero Angela who disserted on
the importance of innovation and creative destruction with which to make room for
the new; there was Belpoliti who delighted in weaving a harmless eulogy of the
waiting in time of WhatsApp. What better occasion to produce oneself in the great
void while avoiding the trap set by the other tracks?

The vast majority of students jumped on these proposals. Of course, creative
destruction has generally been interpreted in a rather flat way, without flights
leading towards a revolutionary breath that was nevertheless there, perhaps in
the artistic or musical sphere. Of course, the wait has been romantically praised
without polemical references to that well-known and not very commendable wait
that is imposed on us when we have to have a colonoscopy with the public health
service and they send us to March 2025. But anyhow.

We will never know if the flights of fancy didn't take place because today's
young people are poor in spirit blah blah blah, or because the instinct for
self-preservation and the suspicious hostility towards institutional moments,
such as the state exam, has induced, in addition to skilfully avoiding the most
compromising traces, also to treat the safest traces flatly and prudently.

We will never know if the students of 2004, whose maturity had to be measured on
those summer mornings, were people without a fervent mind or if they had already
structured, with exceptional maturity, the art of resistance.

Patricia

https://umanitanova.org/maturita-2023-le-trappole-del-governo-e-la-saggezza-studentesca/
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