ABSTRACT
In the winning of silence, the many journeys that one can glimpse and choose range from the tiring, incomprehensible, mandatory silence perceived by the pupil as a duty which corresponds to a strenuous, nerve-wracking effort from the teacher to obtain it to industrious silence that is naturally maintained and is equally shared between students and teachers. The schoolchild's need for silence matures in parallel with the need for self-expression and the desire to learn. The route to silence is an experience of maturity, of integrating oneself with the natural reality and social life. In general, then, silence can be considered as an emotional motivational state which has a useful variance of intensity in relation to the schoolwork that is taking place. As the ancient Greek philosophers have taught, at the apex of multiplicity is unity, 'the One' that encompasses everything and is everything. Simplicity is, therefore, at the pinnacle of perfection. Silence has appeared as a continual and personal quest.
