Reading is also very important for Italian pedagogue Francesco Tonucci: “Often the school does not get children to love literature, that teachers propose reading it at home, and that this proposal is a gift, not an obligation.” Tonucci would also make room for collective readings: in family, half an hour each day: “Every day you can organize a theater play with an hour and a specific place, regularly reading a book by a member of the house, as if it were soap opera.” Faced with the need for adults to spend their free time at home when they are not working, the pedagogue has asked parents to become teachers' aides.

In addition to learning from the daily activities of the house and reading books, he mentioned a third pillar in the interview he was given in El País: playing.

Tonucci is concerned that in this crisis, the authorities have not taken into account the children they expect. “Your only concern has been that the school can follow.” Although not in person, they wanted to show that everything remains the same, he says, but it is not. In addition, the pandemic “has shown that the school does not work.”

Even when there's no lockdown, kids have to work more on the street.

Tonucci is famous for claiming cities tailored to children, spaces that put children in the center, so that children are comfortable on the street and not in schools and butters. Therefore, he believes that, even when there is no confinement order, children do not function sufficiently in the street, or that if they go out in the street, adults always do. It has called for safe spaces for children to be able to walk in the street in a free and relaxed manner.

After lockdown, what? “Let the children go out and scream, let them throw stones, let them run, let them embrace… although this is going to be difficult.”