Unstructured Learning in Structured Learning Environment: a Personal View

Abstract

 In this lecture I present some thoughts on the unstructured world of spaces and ideas that develop around the structured process of education. The lecture is based on my meditations on my own long experience of being a student and on my shorter experience of being a teacher. Briefly touching upon the school as a spatial and temporal entity that configures the student’s world, I discuss the figure of the teacher both as a source of values—positive as well as negative— for the student and as an individual navigating a complex terrain.