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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
“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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]