It will be that the school is at the center of controversy, in this period. It will be that anxiety rises in view of the end of the school year. But the latest involuntary gaffe of the Minister of Education has triggered a series of posts and tweets on social media. “Students – said Minister Lucia Azzolina – are not funnels to be filled with knowledge”.
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The intent was to invite teachers to use teaching methods that are more attentive to the needs of the children, but since a funnel rather than a container to be filled is a tool for emptying, irony has been unleashed on social networks.
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Azzolina said that students are not having funnels to fill.
The funnels, to be filled.
The funnels.
– Gregorio Pignataro (@GregPignataro) May 18, 2020
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The mind of many immediately went to the mythical Vulvia, famous character of Corrado Guzzanti on the presenter of an educational TV channel with a funnel lock.
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“According to some news agencies, education minister Azzolina said that students are not” funnels to be filled “. Now either someone finds me the video or I don’t believe it. I do not believe it. I beg you. Give me back the thieves », writes the actor Luca Bizzarri on his twitter profile.
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The minister tried to run for cover: the Nuremberg funnel “is a metaphor on learning well known in the world of school: a student to whom notions are `poured ‘in the head through a funnel. Learning doesn’t work like that, the teachers know it well, and that’s what I meant when I recalled the image of the funnel during the Saturday conference, “the student is not a funnel to be filled with knowledge, it is much more, I said, “wrote Azzolina, responding to the controversy of the past few hours. «Someone – added the owner of the department of Viale Trastevere – took me literally, dwelling on the fact that the funnels are not filled but are used to fill. I understand very well that it can lend itself to easy irony, I laugh about it too. But I want to reassure you that at the Ministry we didn’t try to put funnels on the boys’ heads by pouring books on them (of course liquefied), before saying that it doesn’t work … ». Fortunately, the minister concluded «anyone can inquire about this concept using a simple search engine. Maybe even today more people will talk about the topic of teaching methods, which is actually very serious ». But the explanation was targeted, perhaps even heavier than the first sentence. After all, politicians’ gaffes they are always relaunched and resumed with great euphoria by users on the Net.
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In fact, the student is filled, not the funnel.
There is also the sketch, you published it, Minister. https://t.co/QIT4jfRrqZ– Luca Bizzarri (@LucaBizzarri) May 20, 2020
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