Since it was born, a couple of months ago, we have been carefully following the «Drin Drin» movement (the objective is to give a wake-up call to the country…) of the entrepreneur Alberto Forchielli and the economist Michele Boldrin, someone who failing to halt the decline, it seems to be doing everything it can to accelerate it. However, «Drin Drin» – with a certain political originality, it must be said – aims at the centre. Moderates who want to be the balance (or crutch?) between left and right. «In a constructive way», that is.
We will all die centrists. Good good.
In any case. One of the points of the program of «Drin Drin», and it is an old strong point of Boldrin drin drin, is a total reform of the school system, with a marked idiosyncrasy for the Classical, a high school that churns out humanists but not technicians. As Forchielli says, «however prestigious, it risks repeating the mistake of the Chinese mandarins. Who were masters of literature, poetry and philosophy concentrated on theoretical disciplines, but officials incapable of dealing with concrete problems.” As Boldrin simplifies, “you know many things, but they are all of little use.” In fact we have seen what a bad end China has come to…
Now. We don’t want to fall into clichés by praising a high school “that opens the mind and teaches you to think” and “afterwards you can do any major”.
However, if we talk about humanists and technicians, we point out that the two political models par excellence, moderates and centrists, who are said to have solved the country’s problems, drin drin! – they are Mario Monti and Mario Draghi.
And they both did the Classic.