A forma da escola: um exercício de atenção

Abstract

We live in a society where our relationship with the world, with things and with people, is exercised on a level of utility and self-promotion. We want to dominate and consume everything. There is an endless supply of advertisements and stimuli to produce and consume more and more. We have become hyperactive and hyperconsumed society. This destroys one of the main human faculties, attention. The school is the place where what is generated in primacy is attention. The study is an activity of attention to something, where we try to listen to it, instead of consuming it. The school can be an alternative place to recurrent utilitarianism, consumption, and self-promotion. For this, I intend to think of school as a place separate from working time, that is, a place of free time. And from that, think of an education that allows us to live more fully.