The strength to recognize fragility. The voice of the youngest is raised – time.news

2023-05-20 20:57:42

Of CHIARA SANDRUCCI

Barbara Stefanelli and Beppe Severgnini’s meetings with students. For a different school

Let’s not blame the pandemic or the internet for the unease of the kids, we adults are the first to be fragile. The confrontation with high school students opened on Saturday 21 May on Corriere della Sera’s Saturday at the Turin Book Fair with the deputy director Barbara Stefanelli. Already on Friday 19 Beppe Severgnini met some of the project classes Beyond the newsthen speaking at the Solferino stand.

The right to be fragile

On Saturday 20, in the morning, Stefanelli spoke with school children together with the psychologist Matteo Lancini, president of the Minotauro Foundation in Milan, and Annalena Benini, the next director of the Salone. A sort of public assembly, in the BookStock Arena, the space for young readers, entitled The right to be fragile. what the students are asking for in an open letter sent to the newspapers last month, shared by the representatives of the Milan and Turin councils present in the room and signed by many superiors throughout Italy.

Recognizing that you are fragile is a sign of strength, the kids said, but many adults play down the problem, as if it were a whim. The teachers say we exaggerate complaining about the workload. So far, the students argue, there hasn’t been real listening the political will to change. Some adults listen, but how? The problem is attributed to bullying, the pandemic, the smartphone. We invent stories – observed Lancini – so we don’t have to do anything. We listen to them, then we send them back to study and claim that a 2 has never hurt anyone.

In recent months, the voice of the students has risen, first with the letter from high school and then with the movement of the tents of the university students, Stefanelli pointed out, who recognizes in them the courage of fragility. They are asking for a different school, which does not fuel the competition. A school to feel good about. To refer back in my day it doesn’t make sense, because these are the yours times, acknowledged Benini. The problem is us adults, unable to listen because deep down we don’t accept the discomfort of our children. This generation, Stefanelli added, had the merit of lifting the veil on the stigma of psychological malaise, asking for more support desks within schools, not just the request for a change, but the beginning of the change.

A diabolical decalogue

Beppe Severgnini also addressed the boys, with his semi-serious lesson The diabolical decalogue. How to write badly and not be understood in the meeting held on Friday morning in the Sala Oro.

After the three online meetings, he confronted some classes that participated in the project Beyond the news of the Salon with the Corriere della Sera. Then also intervened at the Solferino stand, to talk about frailty of the youngest. Know how to dare, know how to listen, don’t be presumptuous, were his advice. One above all, always keep studying, never stop. You can start aging even at 16 years old.

The voices of the authors

The Corriere writers are also in full swing. Marco Missiroli, in conversation with Alessandro Baricco on the opening day, presented his novel on Saturday 20th Have it all (Einaudi) with Domenico Starnone. Dacia Maraini was among the protagonists of the morning of Saturday 20, led by Mauro Covacich The land adventure (The ship of Theseus) while Sandro Veronesi intervened with Antonio Spadaro at the meeting Who do you say I am? Jesus is a good story for everyonewith Jos Tolentino Mendona, the Vatican Minister of Culture (moderated by Annachiara Sacchi).

The philosopher Telmo Pievani was al Writers’ forest set up by Aboca to talk about the anthropocene; Sunday 21st he will speak at a meeting with Fridays For Future. Eleven appointments for Vanni Santoni, including a tribute to Proust. Friday was the turn of Ciaj Rocchi and Matteo Demonte, authors of Dora’s Stars. The challenges of the General from the Church (Solferino). Today at noon Veronesi returns for Commanderthe book written with the director Edoardo De Angelis.

May 20, 2023 (change May 20, 2023 | 8:57 PM)

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