For a phenomenological education "between the lines". Tuesdays with Morrie

Abstract

Education is a complex, dynamic process and, if it is true that pedagogy must take on a rigorously scientific character in order to analyse educational variables, it is equally true, echoing Don Bosco, that education is a thing of the heart and, sometimes, in order to understand the phenomenon around us, one must simply 'let oneself go'. Letting go, as when one suddenly hears a song on the radio that brings back old memories, such that the emotional flow takes the place of thought (Le Doux, 1996/1998), or as when one reads a book and the emotional charge it conveys, in whatever form it manifests itself, shows us new trajectories to follow or, even better, awakens us from a sleep, "an anaesthesia" caused by the ephemeral and illusion. "My Tuesdays with the Professor" is a text that has the merit of redrawing, after reading it, our, G. Acone (2004) would say, horizons of meaning.