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7.Is the European Model Being Rejected? Repercussionsin the Field of EducationLurdes FigueiralAsociação Luso-Espanhola de Pedagogía, PortugalA minha aldeiaMinha aldeia é todo o mundo.Todo o mundo me pertence.Aqui me encontro e confundocom gente de todo o mundoque a todo o mundo pertence.Bate o sol na minha aldeiacom várias inclinações.Ângulo novo, nova ideia;outros graus, outras razões.Que os homens da minha aldeiasão centenas de milhões.Os homens da minha aldeiadivergem por natureza.…Longas raízes que imergem,todos os homens convergemno centro da minha aldeia.António Gedeão 1My villageMy village is the whole world.The whole world belongs to me.Here I meet and mixwith people from the whole worldthat belong to the whole world.The sun shines in my villagewith various inclinations.New angle, new idea;other degrees, other reasons.Men in my villagethere are hundreds of millions.Men in my villagediffer by nature.…Long roots which immerse,all men convergein the center of my village.António GedeãoI would like to begin with a section of a poem by a Portuguesepoet —who, apart from being a great poet, was also a great teacher of1Gedeão, A. (1956) Movimento Perpétuo, Lisboa.