An original haircut


An original haircut

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I want to tell you something about…my brother’s haircut!
I have a little brother… ( I mean: he is very big, but younger as me!). He was at the “Liceo Scientifico” in Italy (something like a science high school?) until yesterday, but he was very unhappy and unappreciated there. The teachers were there too traditional and bigoted for a new-generation’s boy: they think, students are stupid, we are genius and we must just test, how they’ve learned. That’s not right, then students need teacher’s help to develop their abilities, not to be judged. However, he has tried to stay there for a couple of years, but he has understood that students cannot change the personality of some teachers and finally he decided to move to another school, a private “Liceo linguistico”- high school for languages.
He is very clever: as he was just 18 months I’ve practiced with him the Doman Method. I found very interesting to make some didactic experiments with my two brothers! He could read many words and then books and he could speak English (he is Italian). I was very proud, because he was (He is!) a very smart child, but now I think it was too early, not for him, but for the Italian school’s narrow-mindedness (white-collar mentality!).
He has many interests and likes to know about many different new things: but that is not what the teachers want to have in the public school. The teachers want just to hear or to read what they like and cannot motivate students to give the best. As teacher I think, primary schools are in Italy not bad, but the high schools need to be reformed: teachers have the right to judge only their own work, not the students.
In his first day in the private school, there was an American teacher: he spoke with my brother and… he said: your haircut! You seems like… And my brother: I know, I’ve an original haircut!




user-icon Submitted by Antonella on Fri, 2008-05-09 16:31.

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Hi!
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Submitted by Angeles on Fri, 2008-05-09 17:00.

Hi from Spain, Antonella!

Nice Xombyte! And what's more important, I think, is your oppinion about the Italian educational system. By the way... so similar to the Spanish one, specially Secondary school. In fact, education has lost a lot of credibility here.

Bye!



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Educational System...
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Submitted by Antonella on Fri, 2008-05-09 17:06.

Hola!
A very good educational system is an utopia. I'm teaching in Germany now and here it's not better.



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¡Hola!
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Submitted by Angeles on Sun, 2008-05-11 13:24.

That's really frustrating!

So, you are in Germany!!! How's life there??

Angeles Fernandez
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Germany...
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Submitted by Antonella on Sun, 2008-05-11 13:45.

I don't like living here:-( schools for my children are very bad, people are cold. Why I live here? I thought, Germany was better as Italy, but it isn't for many reasons. That's not the country I want to stay until the end of my life.
I was in "La Rambla" in Barcelona ten years ago... it was funny! (all these Gaudi's houses)



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Oh, yes, I've been told
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Submitted by Angeles on Sun, 2008-05-11 15:32.

Oh, yes, I've been told people is quite cold there... And from the point of view of "Mediterranean" people like you and me, their way of life must be very different.

So... you visited "La Rambla" in Barcelona! My parents live there and I visit them several times per year. I live Barcelona!!!

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Only foreign friends... very sad!
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Submitted by Antonella on Sun, 2008-05-11 15:46.

I'm agree: mediterrean people need other people around! I'm here from about 10 years: I have only foreign friends. It is very sad, because I know many german people, but they are as a snail.



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Snails??
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Submitted by Angeles on Mon, 2008-05-12 12:34.

German people are like snails?? Why? Because they are always at home?

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At home...
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Submitted by Antonella on Mon, 2008-05-12 13:30.

They are always at home !!! ... or they need to drink beer.
Yes, they are like snails, because they cannot enjoy the freedom to meet other people:-) Sometimes is here like a jail.



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Wow!
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Submitted by Angeles on Mon, 2008-05-12 15:04.

My God! I think I wouldn't be able to live that way!

I take a beer from time to time, but... with my friends and family! :-)

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Difficult
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Submitted by raif on Sat, 2008-05-17 03:21.

Education is today a difficult matter: teachers have to adapt their own "tempo" to the modern life's needs.



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Teachers today
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Submitted by Antonella on Sat, 2008-05-17 13:55.

It is difficult to be teacher today: you have to learn more than your students



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