This morning I received the newsletter in January of ADI (http://ospitiweb.indire.it/adi/), in order to exemplify how to address problems of current school, contained the parable that I pasted below.
To date nobody has been able to pose as a whole the problem of change needed in schools and overlap only sectoral visions which eventually lead to frustration, loss and confusion for both students and teachers for us.
The newsletter contains a greeting to the Italian school in 2010, inspired by "Sapere Aude" Kant's able to give all students the ability and courage to use his intelligence without being guided by others.
For my part, rather than "led" (I teach in a primary school and I recognize myself in a sense a leadership role) I would rather have "manipulated". It seems to me important. The parable of
six blind men and the elephant.
Once there were six wise men who lived together in a small town.
The six essays were blind. One day an elephant was brought to town. The six wanted to know, but how could they?
"I know," said the first essay, "will touch them."
"Good idea," said the others, "so we know how an elephant."
The six came from elephants.
The first touched the big ears and flat. She felt him move slowly back and forth. "The elephant is like a fan," he proclaimed.
The second touched the elephant's legs. "It 's like a tree," he said.
"You're both wrong," said the third. "The elephant is like a rope." He was touching the elephant's tail.
Immediately after the fourth with his hand touched the sharp point of the tusk. "The elephant is like a spear," he said.
"No, no," said the fifth, "is like a high wall." He touched the side of the elephant. The sixth had grabbed the trunk. "You are wrong," he said, "the elephant is like a snake."
"No, like a rope."
"Snake!"
"Wall!"
"You are wrong!" "I right! "
The six blind men continued to scream for an hour against each other and could not find was made as an elephant.
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