Scriind postarea asta am realizat că povestea pe care mi-o spuneam despre una dintre primele mele amintiri nu e neapărat singura variantă posibilă despre cum s-au întâmplat lucrurile. Dar vă zic de pe-acum: eu votez cu varianta A.
Mosaic
This is a travel story made of little pieces. The image I’m putting together shows the why behind the interest in democratic education which led me to a one month learning journey to Brazil. I’m writing from a bed in Cotia, São Paulo, with feet so cold that I wish I had carried fluffy woolen …
A thought from the bottom of an ancient sea
…And maybe the atoms that make me have been here before, and maybe they will be here billions of years from now to witness the changing of the landscape. Or maybe they haven’t, and maybe they won’t. Who knows? From that moment on the thought stayed with me – together with the bittersweet feeling that …
The Handmaid’s Tale and the Silver Earring
There’s a fragment in The handmaid’s tale by Margaret Atwood that really caught my attention while reading it. Well, it’s fair to say that lots of fragments in that book caught my attention, but it was different with this one: it stirred some memory. This happens quite frequently while I’m reading, and I usually just keep …
A list of 7 awesome schools around the world (and how I found them)
Last year, around this time, something super cool happened: I got into a learning context where I was invited to imagine the most exciting kinds of schools – and then go find them in the real world. I had just joined the Alternative University in Bucharest, eager to explore the very broad subject of education. …