Emilio Tenti Fanfani in Escobar

   Last Thursday, Emilio Tenti Fanfani came to Escobar and gave a seminar on many of the topics he usually writes about in his books.  At first, he started by saying what the features of an effective speaker should be. Then, he talked about different problems that affect Education. Finally, he decided to give people the opportunity to ask him questions, express new ideas and even expose in what points they disagreed with him.

   His ideas in the seminar were exposed  in a very comprehensible style. He suggested among other tips, that both teachers and future ones should do the same when they were, for example, delivering a lesson since otherwise it would not be productive for our students and the enjoyment of our job.

   He also talked about the different problems that affect public Education. He included among them the fact that secondary students have not acquired much knowledge and skills when they finish the last year of school. He said that many of them could hardly understand paragraphs or get main ideas from them. This would be a clear obstacle if they ever intended, for example, to continue studying at university.

   Finally, when the public had the chance to ask him questions, he proposed many ideas such as how to motivate students to learn. He talked about how respect for the differences could be used in order to introduce new topics and help learners have a positive attitude towards what may otherwise be rejected by them.

   The seminar was enjoyable and worth listening since it both helped students revise the ideas they had read about the previous years and it also gave new ideas about how to manage motivation in the classroom.