Education is not just a topic in a primary school essay

I had read,during the first quarantine of 2020, that anyone who will come out of it without having acquired something new, either as a hobby or a skill, then all the “I don’t have time” they had said until then were not reasons but excuses. They were not busy, just lazy. That’s something that’s stuck […]

Are poets still around?

“How fate and time brought about not listening to a poet”, wrote Manos Eleftheriou around the 70s, in his poem “Gilded Words (Malamatenia loyia)”. A poem set to music, an almost throbbing hit for summer concerts, as the audience sings with friends and loved ones. The path is long-winded, overwhelmed with mythology, wars, riots, revolutions, […]

What are your New Year’s resolutions for 2022?

I don’t know about you, but I have to admit that New Year’s resolutions were never my strong point. The truth is that by the first week of January, among questions like “How did the holidays pass so soon?” and “How is it possible to still have food left from New Year’s feast?”, I usually fall into […]

“Every man is his own chief enemy”

Yet another night comes, only to find me burning the midnight oil in a tight rope between obsessions and overreactions. My mind has turned disturbing. I give in, transforming into a pawn among them. I give in and surrender with no hesitation, no second thoughts, no restraints. An incriminating finger fluttering before my face, as […]

Education or cultivation

“Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity” Isocrates, Athenian orator. Confusing the meaning of education with cultivation is a common phenomenon. There is often the belief that education is necessarily accompanied by cultivation. In reality, these are two different concepts. Education plays the role of imparting knowledge, it is provided by […]

Love or virulence?

“Love didn’t meet them at their best, it met them in their mess,” with this “quote” I’ll start writing, and I’ll finish with it, too. Quotes like that flood social media home pages on the daily, while they’re being infused in movies and series, romanticized and normalized leading to a fear of missing out on […]

Freedom of Speech 101-

It’s striking how in a democratic society, in the year 2021, there must be texts dedicated to freedom of speech. What has gone wrong and in our times we question freedom of speech in the society we have created? Have you ever had difficulty expressing your opinion freely because of fear that the state apparatus […]

Through the prism

“Life, death and in between Art”. Nikos Engonopoulos sums up in a nutshell a fundamental principle: art is an inalienable part of human life. More accurate, art itself is life, while life is trying to imitate art until death succeeds her. By definition this concept requires the existence οf a recipient – let us not […]

Melting point

Stereotypes. If we separate this word into individual parts, we notice that the word “stereotype” derives from the greek words “stereos”, meaning solid, and “typos”, meaning form. When we’re discussing stereo types, then we’re encountering solid forms, so compact and unshakeable that manages to keep its mass constant, from one generation to another. It doesn’t […]