Readers will find this remarkable book will make them think, rethink and clarify the educational maze in which we appear to be trapped.
Unique in both content and form, this book brings together a number of talks by Eulàlia Bosch. Some were given some time ago and others were given more recently, but they are all still keenly relevant today. They were individually crafted in difficult moments for specific people who were organising specific programmes related to the world of education.
In terms of form, the book transforms the traditional discourse that the author has taken all over the world in the format of talks to the written format, with the understanding, as she says that a talk is not an essay or a narrative. A talk is like a pause in a reflective process expressed out loud. Each talk is unique, to be given on a given day in a specific place to specific people in the framework of a programme. This is what makes it unique.
A place called school answers three of the lines of action repeatedly expressed by the author’s projects: firstly, the interest in understanding what kind of testimony we should pass on to the next generation and how to do so; secondly, the relevance of the arts understood as forms of accessing knowledge; and finally, the certainty that if we are not to grow completely alone, from a very young age we need someone to help us occupy certain spaces and personalise our time.