In these days, 500 thousand students They are struggling with the first real state exam of life, which concludes the cycle of secondary education: the oral interview after the two written tests that supported last week.
I read that from the Ministry they would like to restore, starting from next year, the ancient name of high school exam. I imagine the understandable reactions: a return to the past, a wording that covers authoritarian turns.
We know well that It is not a name to give substance to thingsnor a piece of paper to make boys and girls men and women. Yet even the names have weight and value and we must not be afraid of it.
Being mature does not mean obtaining the greatest results, throwing yourself into an unbridled competition, forgetting lightness and passion, also the beautiful leisure of adolescence. But it’s maturity face the challenges and difficulties and learn to support them.
Understand that the effort, the sacrifices of many hours of study that, the doubt comes to us, may never serve us, However, they have a sense. They teach order, attention to the times, dosage of their own strength, sharing with the companions of misunderstandings and excellence.
They teach to measure themselvesto understand the strengths and fragility. And also the anxieties, or the light -hearted pre and post exams are passages, memorable and foundative. They prepare for the many tests that life places, not only to obtain certificates.
It is not a document, a stamp, which makes mature, yet the examination that concludes the high school changes. It is a caesura, which relaunches in reality with a new responsibility. It is the time of a choice: a new study path, a working road.
Still confused options, which they can and perhaps will have to change on the street, learning to stay with the feet on the ground and to know their possibilities.
As on many other occasions it will happen, it is up to three questions to answer:
What you love to doand it is the first criterion, to be approached by knowing, free from conditioning.
What do you know how to do: utopian and childish to dream of a future as a nuclear engineer if in the scientific subjects you just reach the sufficiency.
But also What can you doalthough it looks like a constraint, even humiliating. I could dream of a degree course in the most prestigious foreign university, and do not have the economic resources, or instead have emotional ties that prevent me from going far.
Is it a defeat? No, it’s a pointed. And accept it, take it as its own decision makes it grow.
Perhaps cradling our children too long We insinuated that the infinite possibilities were all at hand.
Always educational and right to look around, and recognize in many peers, neighbor and distant, so precarious or difficult conditions that also do not brake the will, the creative energies, the intelligence.
Always remember that having been able to study, perhaps to continue studying is a privilege. It is not for everyone, unfortunately. Ridiculous complaining or refusing it.
