MESSINA – The appointment is Monday 29 April, at 6pm, at the “Feltrinelli” in Messina. In the foreground the book “School goes to war” Of Antonio Mazzeo (in the photo), published by Manifestolibrthe. Food for thought for “a culture of peace”. The sociologist introduces Tania Poguisch and father Felice Scalia dialogue with the author.
“We should talk about the deaths in the First World War”
Poguisch underlines: “In the book he describes in detail the activities with military infrastructures in schools and must make us reflect on why Italy, in connection with its Ministry of Education and Research, has a great desire to educate about war. Yes, to war, because in the pages of Antonio Mazzeo’s book we find ourselves immersed in a sequence of activities which, between games and various parties, involve students in a series of advertising campaigns promoted once by the Navy General Staff, another time from the Air Force and so on. All activities with a captivating title for the collective imagination of young students who approach these experiences thinking of playing, participating through competitions and learning something about civic sense”.
And again: “In fact, if some of these activities were reversed in the educational sense based on the constitutional principles of a free, secular school for all, talking about the First World War with the real facts documented by historians and scholars and the deaths of thousands of young people who did not want to go to a war that was not their war, it would help young people to build another paradigm for humanity.
And instead reading the book we see the training offers stacked one after the other which are implemented through memoranda of understanding signed by the various military sectors with the Ministry of Education and Merit, but also of the Environment”.
