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Educating under the
Shadow of Neo-Fascism (part two) By Gianluigi Gugliermetto 10/25/2025
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For the past two weeks, after forty years, I have returned to high school in Italy, this time as a teacher. My first impression is that very little has changed, and the changes have been for the worse. Bureaucracy dominates; nobody who is there gives the impression that they want to be there, and the bathrooms have not been refurbished since then, or earlier. |
Gabe Dannenbring asked his audience of over 2 million U.S. educators why
teachers are leaving the profession. Here is what they told him. | Can anything but a schizophrenic mindset be
produced by such a situation? And who is profiting from it except the neo-fascist tendencies in society, who thrive on confused citizens? The sad irony is that the official guidelines say that teachers are supposed to |
collaborate in the formation of “participatory active citizens.” Many decades ago, Marie-Dominique Chenu spoke of “exhausted pedagogy,” an expression that perfectly fits my experience at the moment. His student, Matthew Fox, answered to Chenu’s call for a deep change with his A.W.E. proposal — meaning Ancestral Wisdom Education — which
is light-years away from the situation I find myself in.
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What can I do? I am just at the beginning and I will keep my readers posted, but in the meantime I have come up with three ideas: (1) I am trying to teach my students the inner workings of the disciplines I teach — history and philosophy — and not just what historians and |
Matthew Fox and Professor Pitt demonstrate a new approach to teaching through multi-media. professorpitt |
philosophers have said through the ages; (2) I proposed a workshop for teachers on the topics of empathic communication; (3) I am trying to get a rapper invited to the school who works with high school students to help them express their fears and hopes. The fact that I recently met by mere chance a rapper who
does that — just as Matt Fox met Professor Pitt years ago doing the same thing — is one of those coincidences that look rather like a synchronicity. We need wisdom schools and not just knowledge factories! * Thanks Matt! That’s my new mantra! |
Queries for Contemplation What similarities and differences do you find in your school experience? What
can you do to improve the way in which knowledge is transmitted and wisdom is reached? |
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