Act 1 Scene 2 The lessons that Rita needs to learn

Education is one of the central themes of the play and I think that Rita has knowledge related to her experience in life but what she needs are systematic lessons. They would be connected with language or vocabulary in order for her to become cultured or cultivated. The lessons would help her to improve her use of language for instance.
In some way I can say that both, Frank and Rita, are learning from each other differents issues.
Rita thinks that Frank has good taste to decorate the room because everything is in the right place in her opinion. "A perfect mess". She also thinks that proper students are the ones who read and study. What do you think?

Educating Rita (Act 1 Scene1)

I have just started with the book Educating Rita by Willy Russell. It began introducing the main characters, Rita is a working class, twenty six - year- old and a hairdresser. She is supposed to have a baby by now, but she wants a better life so she decided to start a literature course in order to become more educated and culturally aware.
Frank is her tutor in his fifties and with a drink problem. During the first interview, she teaches him many things related to her experience in life, in this way we would interprete that she is not a stupid woman.

Final Post on Savater's book

I will try to make this entry more personal. While reading the book I experienced different feelings, I agreed with many ideas in several chapters, from the most interesting ideas to me I wrote in the previous entries.
The book also made me reflect about my life as human being.I thought about my experience as student, daughter and now as a teacher too.I try to improve my behaviour, my reactions, to be calm. But it is sometimes not an easy process.
Finally, the most important thing, according to Savater's words, is "to live a good live" with all that it implies. I might add that as teacher to be It will not enough to know only the subject, I should also know values, act according to them and transmit them to my students through actions or examples.

Apendice: Diez años despues: Ante el Nuevo Milenio

Fernado Savater tells us that even if the century changes the world remains more or less the same, similar people, similar problems, etc.We should try to be better as a person, as a member of a society or as a member of the same species. We would also bear in mind that we should work together in order to get the same aim, that is to say, to live in this world as better as possible!In addition to that, we have to respect everyone even if the other person is different from us, in this way we respect ourselves as human being too.

Epilogo: Tendras que pensartelo

"... Porque vivir no es una ciencia exacta, como las matematicas, sino un arte, como la musica. De la musica se pueden aprender ciertas reglas y se puede escuchar lo que han creado grandes compositores, pero si no tienes oido, ni ritmo, ni voz, de poco va a servirte todo eso.Con el arte de vivir pasa lo mismo: lo que puede enseñarse le viene muy bien a quien tiene condiciones, pero al "sordo" de nacimiento son cosas que le aburren o le lian aun mas de lo que esta. Claro que en este campo la mayoria de los sordos suelen serlo voluntariamente..." I related this part of the book to Learning as a long life process, we can learn as much as we want through our lives!
We can improve ourselves all the time , if we want!

Chapter 9 Elecciones Generales

What I highlighted in this chapter is when Fernando Savater says " Piensa en el hambre, que hace morir todavia a tantisimos millones de personas, o el subdesarrollo economico y educativo de muchos paises, o la pervivencia de sistemas politicos brutales que oprimen sin remilgos a su poblacion y amenazan a sus vecinos, o el derroche de dinero y ciencia en armamentos... Otro ejemplo: el militarismo, la inversion frenetica en armamento de recursos que podrian resolver la mayoria de las carencias que hoy se padecen en el mundo, el cultivo de la guerra agresiva( arte inmoral de suprimir al otro en lugar de intentar ponerse en su lugar)" And I related those words with the film I've just seen that is called "Fahrenheit" and it presents the ambitiuos plan of the United States' government during the war in Iraq, In my view,it is a country that spends a lot of money and technology on the development of the production of the weapons of mass- destruction instead of solving other more important problems that affect everyday people's life.In this case politics and Ethics are not closely related!

Chapter 8 Tanto Gusto

Fernando Savater wrote: "Como a mi juicio el puritanismo es la actitud mas opuesta que puede darse a la etica, no me oiras ni una palabra contra el placer ni por supuesto intentare de ningun modo que te averguences, aunque sea poquito, por el apetito de disfrutar lo mas posible con cuerpo y alma...." "si tardas mucho en pasarlo bien, terminas por pasar de pasarlo bien..." and I really agree with him, I also consider that it is closely related with the question of Enjoy the life, as he has been showing us in the previuos chapters. In addition to that he wrote "La etica consiste en apostar a favor de que la vida vale la pena, ya que hasta las penas de la vida valen la pena..." in this case he played with similar words which I think are true,I can add that we always learn something even from the wrong or incorrect things in life.Because life is a continuous process of learning!