This essay retraces the long and intense cooperation between Antonio Erbetta and the Turin’s Institution for a Responsible Education (Istituzione Torinese per un’Educazione Responsabile, ITER). The attention is especially focused on an educational seminar that took place with the heads of the Centers for Culture, and that gave life to the book Luxury? No, thanks: democracy (“Lusso? No, grazie: democrazia”, Tirrenia Stampatori, 2007), evidence of the historical, social and educational meaning of the work of the teachers and operators of the Centers for Culture in Turin. This is also a testimony of the deep and socially irreplaceable sense of the educational work in the field and of the fruitful attention, professional and human, that Erbetta dedicated to it.

Published on: Per un’educazione come critica dell’educazione N. 17  Nuova Serie – Anno IX 2013