As we know, at maturity 2024, among the traces of the first written test, the Italian one, a piece of the Nobel Prize winner in Medicine Rita Levi-Montalcini,”Praise of imperfection”. Commenting on the ministerial choice was La nephew of the neurologist, Pieraelectronics engineer, at the microphones of Fanpage.
Here you are why, in his opinion, students should have chosen this track: “The first lesson that should be drawn from my aunt’s Praise to Imperfection is to learn to accept that life is not programmable and that whatever happens to us we must take it, face it and if necessary even retrace our steps. Today we are too tied to the need to have a pre-established and certain plan, as if we already knew what our future will be. But this is impossible and the ‘virtue of imperfection’ lies precisely in knowing that no plan is perfect and that our life can change at any moment.”
Snubbed track?
“For this reason I expected that many more students would choose the track in which the passage from my aunt’s book was. I thought it could be an opportunity for them to express themselves freely, to really tell who they are,” she said with a bit of bitterness. According to data provided by the Ministry, the track was chosen by only 11.3% of students, appearing somewhat snubbed.
“The second lesson that I believe my aunt wanted to leave to future generations with her words: if you know how to observe and above all ask yourself why the things that form the reality around you can improve what exists, at least if it isn’t already there his. Human nature – as my aunt wrote in her autobiography – is necessarily imperfect, but this is not necessarily a bad thing. A perfect being cannot be improved, the human being, precisely because he is imperfect, is. As well as the reality that surrounds us: everything that we observe critically can suggest an improvement,” she added.
What message to graduates?
“Graduate students are called to make an important choice for their lives, but no one can really know what will happen. I know many kids who have changed their minds over the course of their academic careers. You can change, you can discover a job that you are completely passionate about and that you hadn’t considered until then. The important thing is to live, use our time to follow what we are passionate about and choose the job that seems best suited to us, at least in the present moment. This is the message that my aunt always wanted to leave to young people and I think she would also have left it to the kids who graduated from high school this year,” she concluded.
