Italian Education (read Catholic Education)

If you have never attended a Catholic school, watch Doubt. Don't focus on the topic at hand in the film, just look at the manner in which class is conducted. There are, of course, exceptions to this, but as it is with many stereotypes, there is enough truth to carry a discussion. Arrigo, the founder of ACLE, holds a vision I now share to abolish the obsolete methodologies still in play here in Italy. His revolutionary techniques that are constantly evolving with every new discovery of effective teaching stategies have spread like Nutella on biscotti for the last 25 years. The results speak for themselves, but the children love to speak up louder (in English, if they so please)

Once held in a noisy park or an unused gym, these English Camps are now held inside the very schools that once chastised new ideas that disrupted the comfortable atmosphere created by placing the teacher in an authoritarian role. In less than an hour and a half, I myself will walk through the doors of a private Catholic school to go straight back into the courtyard to lead a group of 84 Italian students in a group song followed by a rigorous game of Octopus. The beauty of it all is we did not have to run a Crusade-like vendetta to infiltrate the school; we merely continued to demonstrate how effective modern kinesthesiological techniques can be.