by Andreea Dumitru » Wed Jul 03, 2013 5:40 pm
I see that both Polina and Pippo have answered the question quite eloquently, so I will add my absolute agreement to their statements. I will mention the joy expressed by one of my fellow Romanian teachers, who was extremely impressed by how nice, purposefully and quietly students were creating drawings in the hall of our high school during one of the days of the project spent in Romania. I think it's projects like this - and not only - that infirm what might otherwise be a negative stereotype, namely that groups of teenagers usually just get together to do mischief. I think teenagers have a remarkable ability to cooperate and govern themselves, and when left to their own devices, but with a target to aim for, will deliver quite good results.