As soon as they come out of their shells, some chicks start following the first animated object they see, as if it were their biological mother. The Austrian ethologist Konrad Lorenz, at the origin of this discovery in the 1940s, experienced it himself by becoming the mother figure of greylag geese. A few years later […]
“For decades, because they are the first educators of their children, we have strengthened the place of parents in school”, notes LR deputy Annie Genevard. “A factor in student success. But there is also a dark aspect to this involvement, when it leads families to delegitimize the teacher by questioning the nature of the knowledge […]