Guissani writes that the young need to be immersed in a unified view of the world which he calls "tradition". Without such a unified vision the young person will be "disconnected and worn down". A neutral education leads to either "fanaticism, bigotry against a certain position, or an 'anything goes' indifference". The single criterion, or tradition, turns out to help even those who ultimately reject it because only when questioning from total security and from comparison with heartfelt truth will any conversion to another view happen. A skeptic can't approach a problem in the same way as the person with such a unified vision. The skeptic simply says "whatever" and remains indifferent to reality.
Real authority comes from a person who embodies the tradition or hypothesis of reality. (This is a real challenge to parents and teachers.)
True conviction in the student arises from stimulating the adolescent to personally commit to verify the tradition (hypothesis) in his own life. Without this personal verification true learning has not taken place. This risk of personal verification of the tradition is the source of the adolescent coming to his age of true freedom. Hence the "risk" of education.
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