'... build nests for sparks'

Abstract

«The school must be a little better than the society around us, otherwise what is it doing? ... You cannot learn if you believe that your thoughts are not worth listening to. This is a key point». These sentences contain the meaning of Franco Lorenzoni's path, elementary teacher for a long time in Jupiter and creator of the Cenci laboratory house opened thirty years ago to make environmental and integration experiences with boys and girls in the Amelia countryside, in Umbria. The pedagogical passion of this true "elementary teacher" emerges all in this essay/story of his last year of school.