A valuable teaching opportunity

As people in Greece count their fourth stay-at-home week, they are starting to realize that the social distancing conditions may last longer than they had imagined. In this unprecedented situation, personal choice has a higher significance than governmental rules. The role of the individual as part of a group has never been more evident and more crucial. A crisis that asks that asks of us simply to stay home comes as a test of our responsibility, our power and our ethos.

The multiple ongoing upheavals require adaptations and flexibility. The management of this crisis is multilayered, as is the underlying anxiety that takes on different faces for the child, the teenager, the employed, the unemployed, the pensioner. Anything that suggests normality comes as a redemption. This is confirmed by educators all over Greece who are warmly welcomed on their students' laptop screens,...

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