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8. The need for being human and humanity. Identity is the essential first term of a couple
in which the second term is otherness. None of them is clarified in the absence of the other.
At any level, we define our identity in relation to what is different. The difference may refer
to age, sex, nationality, language, skin color, religion, level of culture, social position,
political affiliation, philosophy of life, literary preferences or of any other nature. Here’s a
major bet of education: to teach our children to enjoy humanness in all its diversity.
Humanness is not like the game of tennis, where you win over another who loses;
humanness may be a universal winner. In animals, an instinctive tendency sees in difference
an adversity. In order for humans not to reproduce this behaviour themselves, a proper
education is needed, thus happening what we always see: third grade elementary school
boys fighting because “I said it in one way and he said it differently”.
9. The need for culture. I’m wondering, by the ears of how many children and teenagers, the
breeze of Beethoven’s, Bach’s, Mozart’s and Chopin’s musical arrangements reaches?
How many glances, that are in the morning of their life, come to delight in the presence of
a painting by Rembrandt or of a sculpure by Brancusi? Will public education be able to
take over this message? Do we still have time for this? A time of contemplation, of supreme
excitement. Do we not release diplomas of varying degrees on a conveyor belt without
cultural coverage? And if they don’t have cultural coverage, what are these diplomas’
holders other than, in the best case, service providers? And if they don’t really have cultural
needs, what more profound motivation can they give to their lives? Cohorts of people, some
having material prosperity, have nevertheless a status of cultural slaves. Should you pitty
them?
10. The need of transcendence. So many times we are in the position of surpassing the limits
of learning for tests, grades, parents. From the need of performance. If the student becomes
aware of it, things become more than pure constraint or desire to please someone else.
Life will show us if what we, the teachers, have chosen, was good, through the thanks of the
youngsters who have set off on the path of life. Returning, they will express their satisfaction of
understanding from us strategies of life that have made them wiser, more intelligent and more
open to the new world full of offers and much too many questions or solutions. If they understood
how to search the road to happiness and fulfillment then, we, the educators and our education,
certainly had a say in it!!!
Teachers: Mihaela Mitrea , Maria Badiu
Students: Cristina Ciulei, Adriana Aldea, Florentina Ionescu, Denisa Boricean
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