Pierfranco Bruni issues letters to Italian teachers and students

Pierfranco Bruni has released two open letters addressed to the educational community in Italy. In a letter to teachers, he praises their resilience in maintaining the school as an anthropological and human space rather than merely a service provider or credit issuer. He emphasizes that teaching is a mission to foster new ways of thinking rather than just repeating existing programs.

In a separate letter addressed to students, Bruni references the legacy of journalist Oriana Fallaci. He invokes her 1975 letter to students to argue that modern schooling has lost its connection to truth, roots, and the individual. He highlights Fallaci’s life of courage and intellectual independence as a necessary model for students in the current educational landscape.