Mirror's_Chest

for PAOLAFRANCESCA: I have gained far more than just a "factual" culture, as you say, from the internet, and besides, what could you objectively know about me? School is untouchable, and that is very true, but if you have time to read the book and deeply understand certain arguments, you will realize that it is not about school per se, but about the system that has been built around it to "educate" people to follow certain types of rules and "myths," as the author rightly states, which are mainly the myth of the institution (whatever it may be!) and its indisputable justification from all points of view.
Is culture made at school? Yes, perhaps in my mother's generation, when studying really meant studying, when a professor had the authority and ability to stand in front of a class, and especially when the world that exists today did not exist. I changed 8 teachers (just for Italian!) between the first and second year of high school, and the same trend occurred in 3 or 4 fundamental subjects (including math, and doing a scientific course, you can only imagine…).
I am of the party that believes you gain true culture by YOURSELF, if you have the desire, the capability, and especially the time and resources; school, for me, should provide each individual with the foundations to then CHOOSE what to pursue and what not to, giving a more than ever nuanced vision of things, and I’m sorry to say, today it is absolutely not like that.
I have fond memories of school because of 2 or 3 teachers: the teacher who taught me grammar in elementary school, the professor who taught me English in middle school, and the one who taught me history/philosophy in high school (take a look at his blog: debernardi.splinder.it), but after that, nothing lasts forever.
And thank goodness I’m no longer in Italy, where the university situation is even worse…

for GREG*89*: what you say is true, but you're in the position of someone who hasn't read the book (at least that's how it seems): take a look and you'll see that this kind of argument has its reasons.

Deschooling does not mean abolishing school at all, quite the opposite; it means uprooting a system that does nothing but "institutionalize" its apparatuses without giving people the opportunity to choose and thus to be independent regardless, let alone proposing a system that is representing its total degradation, as NES says: it is about reclaiming that type of individual independence that, especially from an intellectual point of view, is practically disappearing precisely because of being "schooled." School is fundamental, but it depends on your point of view, like this book, which I encourage you to read without fear of possibly facing disappointment. Everything I have learned, I owe not to school at all, but to 2 or 3 teachers who in 13 years of school represent a meager consolation, period. The discussion is quite different, even though it is obvious that without school, I would have never encountered them. And I do not deny that it is thanks to the internet that I have been able to (and can still) cultivate what I would have never known without any other means of communication, for example, music: the internet is just one of the possible alternatives that the author (in his own words) proposes instead of a system that is much more deeply rooted... For WORKHORSE: if they talked to you about it in school, it means they did a good job! When I think back to my high school years, I feel like crying (literally): that was degradation, people who came out (myself included!) from a "valid on paper" study path that didn’t even know how to tie their shoes. A dear philosophy teacher of mine told me that in one of his fifth-year classes, there were people who had never heard the word "trench"… In short, my question is: is this how school should be?

I didn't really like this album that much; it must be a matter of taste!

This album drives me crazy; "The roots.." is really beautiful.

Who would have thought it would be so beautiful?

masterpiece

"Deftones" is definitely the worst of the bunch, "Saturday Night Wrist" is a nice album, maybe a bit too "Team Sleep" at times, but this "Diamond Eyes" is definitely a semi-masterpiece... for months I haven't listened to anything else but "CMD\CTRL"!

live performances are definitely impressive, even though I'm not a fan of this type of music; they have really hit rock bottom: after a good start ("Le Rane" sticks in your head) the album loses its way, and not a little. Institutionalized.

I don't even know how much I hated this movie...!