[trying to write a less navel-gazing blog post] ...In my country every government pretends to reform everything and especially the things that should be consistent during the years, because by doing so each government can delude itself and its supporters into the fact that what is being done will last, when in fact nothing the italian governments do lasts except the things that really should be changed.
Be it evidence of this the umpteenth reform of the School system, that this government is enforcing just like all its predecessors. Anyway this isn't exactly what I wanted to write about.
I read that in the new system students in high school start off with formative "debts" that they have to "pay off" before the end of the five years. Yep, that's the metaphor. They have "debts". They come at school and they have "debts". Maybe it's nothing new. Previously they had "credits", I believe. Not that it makes much difference. At the University they still will have "credits" I think.
Well, whoever invented this metaphor is an idiot.
This notion is so sad, and a disgrace to the idea of education: but also is an indicator of what or who really leads this world and its present-day philosophical and material changes. And this is certainly not the political elite (for them it was "votes" to count at school, not "debts", right? To each its own metaphor.).
So who actually leads and rule? And not only in Italy of course, not only in Italy.