School - The Clepsydra
Nature itself favours diversity.
In agriculture, polyculture proves to be exceptionally resilient with respect to monoculture.
In the same way, a society of people with a uniform mode of thinking, may be easily manipulated and controlled.
Does school, nowadays, promote the diversity of each child or does it acknowledge and favour certain virtues only? Does it cheer alternative thought and expression or does it instead demand that children should express specific opinions, in a specific structure?
Does it work, ultimately, as a “magic” clepsydra which absorbs the peculiarities of each child, producing identical “human beings”-containers?
