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Why study?

"Le società dei nostri genitori e grandparents lay down the conditions for admission .... But those conditions were clearly explained, with no possibility of misunderstanding of the terms, and were full of equally clear instructions on how to meet them.
In those societies, the slopes of the professional career began as soon as it passed the point of entry. Those tracks were almost always tight, leaving little room for elbowing and even less promising for adventure .... But for those who still need reliable boat that promise safe navigation, the target was neither a mystery nor the subject of an agonizing choice, the tasks of navigation were not fraught with numerous risks and unjustifiable. Who handled the oars rowing there was nothing that assiduity and diligence, following "the letter," the rules of the ship.

discomfort today is different: it is related to purposes rather than means. The procedures of the past, denigrated and lived with resentment by many while they were still in full force, now have become extinct, taking with him in the tomb also inspired the confidence that security. It is no longer a question of finding the means with a view to clearly defined purposes, and then to hold them securely and to use them with the utmost of skill to produce the maximum effect. Today the point is that the ends are elusive (and all too often illusory): fade and dissolve in a shorter time than necessary to achieve them, are fluid, commonly seen as unreliable and not worthy of unwavering commitment and dedication. " (1)

While reading this book I got the number 4 / Inarcassa of 2010, the quarterly of the National Speakers Association of Engineers and Architects professions to p.. 28 analyzes the opportunities for employment in the profession for new graduates. After three pages, the journal of their professions concludes:

" As can be seen from the comparison between the small job (and thus earnings) and the certainties of major expenditure, the budget that results is daunting. Practice the profession of engineer and architect, is no guarantee of work and earnings, and, a fortiori, start such an activity can be a fatal error . "

It is proposed as the main alternative to:

" Consider work abroad. Even today, the Italian professionals have a good market away from Italy, Australia, New Zealand, but also Canada, U.S. and Middle East appreciate the skill and talent of our professionals. "

is therefore confirmed in the pages of Bauman - where you least expect it - in a way that puts the shivers, takes shape as the experience of all the days he had already hinted at the same time crumbles the speech many times have I done to my students: "Do as I do: I knew that if I studied I would have climbed the social ladder and had a well-paid job, but I was struggling so it was."

I do not know how many times I said, not realizing that the world had changed. The parents lived in my own world agreed, the children of aliens did not understand what we were talking about.

What's the point - today - to say: "Study and 'then' have a job and money with which to buy those things that seem so necessary?

not only the study does not guarantee future membership in the consumer world, but it's the same concept of the future to be gone. Simply does not exist, you can not imagine it covered with a dark uncertainty, their life is a losing battle, the preview of a show that will not be represented. Even the "happiness" of a conformist life of slavery he appears to have allowed more.

And then: "Why should they study?"

To answer we must shake off the conviction (this is inculcated daily) that everything is evaluated in terms of market and that this way of being there are no alternatives, just so you can understand that these guys have only one chance to escape their fate: they must rebuild the idea of \u200b\u200bthe future, in other words must cambiare il mondo . Non importa quanto possa sembrare difficile, perché è la loro unica possibilità.

E per farlo devono studiare, studiare a lungo, studiare sempre; perché solo se capisci quello che hai intorno, se sai usare gli strumenti adatti, se sai pensare, solo così saprai contro cosa e come combattere e potrai avere una speranza di riuscire (o comunque di dare un senso alla tua vita invece di venire travolto da una corrente incomprensibile). Devono studiare perché "colui che non comprende il presente non può pensare di controllare il futuro" e perché "l'ignoranza produce la paralisi della volontà" (2) .

Ma per poter study must first learn how to do this and serve the school. The content - so dear to those who think the school as a factory to churn out that human beings are ready for the demands of the market - they are - after all - the secondary, but at the same time each subject is a workout, perhaps tiring and boring but for this necessary: \u200b\u200bwhy anyone runs into the bike started running in circles in a small courtyard.

Now I understand, you just have to make that clear to them .......

(1) Zygmunt Bauman "Lives of waste" - Economica Laterza
2004 (2) Zygmunt Bauman "liquid assets" - Economica Laterza 2005