«Dear professor, I am an almost eighty-year-old grandfather, but I take the liberty of writing them for the student I have been and for the gratitude I feel by reading the articles I get for two of my first and third year granddaughters. The point is this, you go back to school (perhaps) and the messages that come from the professors are: “We will finally check - all subjects and all together - and since it is a normal year, there will be failures and debts ". I take the mistrust, also offensive for those who have worked hard all year, and perhaps indifference to what young people have experienced. So my granddaughters would prefer to stay home this last month, despite having always wanted to go back to school. These professors remind me of Jannacci's dedication to the song The Judgment of God: “To those who witness epochal events, but he does not notice it!”, perhaps they do not know how to seize the right time that also requires change ". I thank this grandfather who reminded me that in recent months we have not lost votes but lives, not pieces of the program but of growth, and the threat cannot be an adult's response. Knowledge does not grow in fear of verification, but in the joy of discovery. It is also a question of chemistry, in fact the blood is collected where it is needed: joy involves the whole body and especially the chest and head; fear instead only the chest, the brain becomes paralyzed. We should ask ourselves: if I couldn't leverage fear to get the kids to study, studierebbero?

To eliminate fear, each teacher will have to find strategies suitable for the age of the disciples and the subject. For example, I schedule checks and queries in advance, only in this way do they become a moment of discovery: I am not interested in finding out what the student does not know (I understand immediately if he has studied or not), but what can he find out from what he has studied (the more you study, even beyond the homework, and knows how to get organized, the more the test will gratify him), because I try to ask fruitful questions about the way the human brain discovers (going from the known to the unknown), questions that do not require closed answers to be repeated as I expect (training), but they invite us to make discoveries that can surprise me too (I have often had to enrich or rectify what I thought). Only in this way does the student become the protagonist of knowledge, the verification becomes a dialogue and the game after a lot of training. Fear is replaced by responsibility, anxiety from curiosity, the fatigue from the challenge. Let's take the fear out of this school month, which is not avoiding what must be done, but to recover lives and not just votes.