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What are young people for? | Stefano Laffi | TEDxMilano


the first organ that is seen is the heart
it’s not the brain I did not expect it
perhaps something that we forget in the
course of life
but this at the ultrasound in the third month al
fifth month what is called the
morphological poetry is already over
the sonographer moves on an image
that you do not understand says and the cerebellum
let’s see if there is yes there is the cerebellum e
the femur let’s see if it is long enough
long right is I tell myself how
cerebellum but because it should not
be the cerebellum and then to what
serves if there was not the femur as much
it must be long and he goes on now
the list of organs is much further ahead
here we are born so measured calibrated
verified compliance with the parameters
expected standards are born already with a vote
cell index of apgar at birth is one
synthesis of health parameters that
some way says in tenths as votes a
school
how many know your child from minute 0
so this is just the trailer le
ultrasounds you do are only fair l of a
film you ‘ll do that you ‘ll see later why
as soon as it is born, it must measure how many g
watercress weeks are 30 40 50 not of
the more your child does not stand still and
you measure a child on a budget
that moves they are 40 50 is difficult
because it oscillates and if they are less
you panic because maybe not
Eat enough does not have milk that
serve and then must grow of thor
centimeters and there is a curve that you see every
time you go to the pediatrician on the curve
of growth of the average population e
your son is there dancing above
duration and and if above is the pride of
my mom’s dad my son above average
and if underneath there is a little more
shame until at some point it can
be that it slides to the tenth percentile
then there is panic there is panic
of the fact that maybe you have to take care
hormonal is perhaps not growing like
maybe something should never be done
what your son did not look at him
check which is very different then with
this anxiety of a parent on you do
everything possible then giostrine
palestrine stimuli of all kinds as if
nature was not enough as if not
could run its course as if it were
reality was not curious enough from
observe and go on to look for them
right things then read on the boxes
asks shopkeepers the right thing for a
child of trani rather a child and
except the right book, the right box
but you’re not looking at him or her
if looking at the box and asking him to
shopkeeper what it takes because there is
already the market on it because the market
via 6 of the market entered the scene on
first day at least in ours
presence because when he was born peter al
singing there was already the park the creamy la
pomatina the peter brush was born
he was already a new consumer
and then you do not give up the market they know it
good psychologists of marketing for two
languages
one is the one who uses those children with them
guys and it’s a language that you do not
understand completely why made of
bright colors of shape and studied
obviously and then of characters that are
those of the cardboard riff that a certain
point are everywhere are on
napkins in the saucers count years
printed on the odds on the backpacks
diaries diaries are everywhere so much that
find them without a problem and it seems to you
that your child wants them but does not want them
he that moment is not wishing
even doing is acting up
performing a task because the market
that he wants for him
he is performing that task and you
meanwhile he is engaged in another because
the message for you different than the code
different your code the one printed
on the instructions of the packs
where it is written this thing is suitable
for here there are vitamins
this is good for this for
that other because the psychologists of the
They know that you must feel
a good parent and this is the
message that has addressed you in this
normative assault the school puts us of the
his when peter entered the school
maternal we were a little late
compared to the insertion a few days
after we arrive and the shot is already formed
the children are singing with
the teacher in chorus a song with
teacher’s song book
then peter to insert himself says but
I can sing the mountain song
and sing his song thinks this
be the key and invent this
song the teacher looks at the notebook
says no excuse there is the song the
we can not sing in the mountain
maternal, all those are hung
shapes already made that you have to color
in trouble come out of use the colors
right if you use dark colors if you use violets
black teacher pt is something that
it does not work
seven years daisy asks us to
breakfast but how many are sixty
seconds and we do not show it to you but
and heel the clock a child of 7
years must not have the watch but what
the drama happened because daisy
you need to know it and tomorrow they have us
invalsi that goes on stage in the second
elementary which is a timed test and from
that moment for time daisies goes to the
contrary rather than flowing as in
it is not in nature as in his life
it goes backwards as a factory to work
and like here and from there the premium anxiety
one of his classmates is tremendous
it comes from the style even then yes
take a few days to go in
country of origin of the family when
returns
the teacher asks but excuse where it is
been these days says they were if
Also the country of my parents
and the teacher tells her well now
get on with your homework
put your homework in the park but here
the teacher saw her that child or
aspar wrote on her the student who
that lesson had to be that day
he had to keep that baby is this
that actually happens to the children
guys, we do not see them, we look at them
not for what they are
that they do but for what still does not
they just do not do not have that
we basically measure theirs
distance between our expectation the
our according to our measure e
what I am but that is not enough for us and the
their life goes on until 16 20 years
when I meet the guys I meet
I do research that I interview with which
let’s do things together and they’ll do me
they say but all these tests these
check these tests for these chaste a
part in Italy in view of what qual
it was the prize that was the goal of
this run and then they tell you but
santino i do not know what i really like
I always did what I had to and then
I do not feel enough maybe I’m not
adequate perhaps it can not do it or maybe not
I will not know I do not know what he chooses
the fear of the future
but how is it possible in the moment of
in the age of the power of the eros of the
desire to be afraid of others in the
future but as we could bring
a generation at that point instead of
to convoke it in reality we have kept it
in exile in captivity rather than giving i
tasks of reality and responsibility
this I say basically a madness
that we can no longer afford for the
simple reason we are there
forgetting that we were emigrating
we emigrated boys and an entire family
he bet on the boys who were leaving
to regain the economy, happiness
adults were betting on the boys there
we are forgetting that the twentieth century is
been made of ideas and discoveries of
young people who had fi 30 years ago i
20 30
einstein was 26 when he wrote
the famous article on relativity
so it was not that old white ones
no mustache was a 26 year old young man there
we are forgetting that the big ones
companies of the 2000s were made
as boys we are 18 and 25 years old
now this is not the best of the worlds
possible
maybe we have to say it and that’s it
because it is not the best of the worlds
possible and we must tell it this way
we must try to find gaps
to get kids in we have to
take on the task of his
improvement is from there that you enter
because if the exact museified world is not
no no entry there is no place for you and it is
what the boys feel that they do not
they feel useful because there is no place not
are expected everything is already busy a bit
like this theater then where you come from
if all already prepared everything already
ready
not only has reality changed a lot
these years and my experiential basis
it counts nothing compared to what it has
a guy will have a boy I am not
the measure of my children and adults
present are not the measure of the boys
present
I speak for myself I did a high school that has
completely changed a university that
it has changed completely
I made conscientious objection to the
military service
doing a 20-month civil service
none of this exists
I looked for work with yellow pages
I went to look at company of
search or sent six letters I found
work
I’ll never say this guy I talked
a language I lived in a city
I’ve only done one job, too
it is probably no longer the measure
evidently of the boys I have of
front
this generation we face
many are present should not be
trained as students who must perform
of homework for writings because there is one
manual that was worth yesterday and is worth today
they must be trained as a pioneer
inquire as a pioneer completely
different means that you have to move the
frontier of knowledge
you mean you have to study you also have to
learn to unlearn as you said
grisons means therefore substantially a
to continuously rebuild the rules
driving means that he has you
formed with untrained questions a
answer how it happens at school and
these questions must be questions
legitimate ones that are not illegitimate
those who are at school
at the university which are those where who
he asks if the answer is that
he replies he knows he has to give the answer
that in the head of one who asks if one is
train so you do not think about carriers
no knowledge of any discovery of
no possibility of entry into the
reality because everything is already written already
done
one day we are at the sea peter at 10 11
years and tells me dad I want to become
rich we are not rich and I do not know
how to take it reminds me of this
so nice it can be generous and he me
he says no I did not mean this and then
I try to take another way and I say
that it is then to become rich
you have to find something that is there
solution a common problem one
answer that somehow answers to
a collective need and therefore perhaps
it can be successful
he looks around and says we could
take water for drinking this water
of the sea
we were there this is the challenge of which I speak
try to take on tasks of reality
something that really urges from outside and
try looking for solutions those guys
I make interdisciplinary groups for this
where it puts semi divergent thinking of
children the energy of the boys the
mature adult with them
let’s imagine district libraries schools
to understand what we can do we turn off the
light
we break the blackmail of the present because
the real is much more than reality the
present is not a repertoire of the possible
and imagine what else you can do in
a place in a job you just did
asked the boys even this
heard we have the shopkeepers residing in
I ask you to do the trees do the
spokesperson for nature because we need it
understand whatever it does what we will do in
we need this neighborhood
the long horizon of nature and you are
the only ones who can embody the
nature and they do it and I’m very happy
I’m talking about this
we actually this thing like saying of
get together to work together
we do in Italy but we do one
only once when there are the big ones
emergencies when there are earthquakes
floods
when these things happen we are one
next to each other and we do not ask who
it is not there that we measure it
respect
we have an urgent reality task
let’s do it together and it works
in that circumstance and we often look
the boys and we call them the next day
we see the angels of the mud
they are in that circumstance and they
they are not very happy and they are right
here is what I’m talking about
reality at the bottom and do what hannah
arendt called politics, not politics
it’s about taking care of each other but
take care of the world together every day
thank you
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