Pasolini: abolish school and television We are accustomed in recent years to feel continuous lametele of teachers on the decadence of the Italian school. One of the reasons for this decline is they say this: no longer works in the school because the models outside of school are bad. In this television is seen by most as the main means of corruption. Thus was born the idea that schools must oppose in every way the television and its models.
do not know if this vision should worry about the naivete, ignorance or moralism. However anyone who reasons in this way did not understand the nature of the school at all. It especially did not understand what the school is very similar to television. In fact are two sides of same coin : the school is the face of traditionalist, one presented the television. Of course, to be aware of the mechanisms that underlie the school should be great clarity and analytical skills. Restated an excerpt from a famous article by Pasolini, useful to remind everyone the authoritarian nature of the school.
What are my two modest proposals to eliminate crime? There are two proposals swiftiane, as their definition do not care the least humorous to hide.
1) immediately abolish the compulsory school.
2) Abolish the television immediately. As teachers and employees of the television can not be eaten, as suggested by Swift, but simply can be put in layoffs.
The compulsory school is a school of initiation into life as a lower middle class: you can teach things useless, silly, false, moralistic, even in the best cases (that is, when you invite flattering to apply the false democracy of self-management, decentralization, etc..: a whole mess). In addition, a concept is dynamic only if it includes the expansion and deepening: learning a little 'history makes sense only if it projects into the future the possibility of a real historical culture. Otherwise, the concepts Marche region death, having no future, and thus their function is merely to create, together with a small middle class instead of a proletarian slave or free an underclass (ie belonging to a ' another culture, that lets you understand where virgin new real things, while it is clear that those who took the compulsory schooling is a prisoner its lowest circle of knowledge, and be offended in front of each new). A fifth grade good enough today in Italy to a worker and his son. An illusion of progress is that the degradation is a criminal, because it makes: first, presumptuous (because of those two miserable things I have learned) and second (and often simultaneously), painfully frustrated, because those two things he has learned nothing earned him the consciousness of his own ignorance. Of course to get to the fifth to eighth class instead, or better, get to the fifteenth class, it would be for me as for everyone, the optimum, I suppose. But today in Italy since compulsory schooling is just as I have described (and I literally fear the idea that there is added a "sex education", so maybe it means the same as the "Paese Sera"), it is better to abolish waiting for better times that of another development . (E 'this is the crux of the matter).
As for the television I do not want to spend more words that I said about compulsory schooling should be multiplied indefinitely, since it is not a teaching but an "example": "models" that through television, are not spoken, but represented. And if the models are they, how can you claim that youth is more exposed and helpless criminaloide or criminal? It 'was the television that has practically (it is only half) ended the era of pity, and began the era of hedonism. It was where young cocky and frustrated with the stupidity of the proposed models and set dell'irraggiungibilità them from school and television, tend to be unstoppable until the delinquency or aggressive or passive to the misery (which is not a crime other than murder) .
Now, each opening to the left is the school's television has not served anything school and why movies are authoritarian state , and the State is the new production (production of humanity). If then progressives have really cares about the anthropological condition of a people, join bravely to demand an immediate cessation of lessons compulsory schooling and television broadcasts. (Corriere della Sera, October 18, 1975)
Pasolini had in mind a real deschooling. A few days later (again the columns of the Corriere della Sera and responding to criticism of Moravia) pointed out that he had not heard about of abolition, but a suspension of the school pending a reform. Then nothing really revolutionary. But in his head was clear that the school was doing damage.
The school is part of the authoritarian, top-just as is television. The school prepares the citizen to be a slave to the television. And vice versa. The content and proposed models are different (for the traditionalist school, produced for television), there are obviously many differences in addition to these, but the nature of the school community and that television is essentially negative and for the same reasons. This is why anyone who works within the school and television, if he is aware of all this should act to minimize the damage to the younger generation. Any other attitude will make them accomplices to the power and the status quo.
Antonio Saccoccio
