Two Systems, One Room: geometria e lei não escrita da sala (C2)
Out of hours the room gives itself away. Thirty chairs face one wall, and the wall faces back, and in that single asymmetry the whole argument of the place is stated without a word: attention flows in one direction and is checked from the front. The windows are set high, which is always explained by light and is never only about light. Chalk dust hangs in the afternoon sun with the slowness of something suspended in water, and the walls carry their layered decoration — the map with its confident borders, the alphabet in a hand no child writes in, the poster urging a virtue nobody has defined. Nothing here is accidental, and nothing here admits to being deliberate. Then the bell, and the room fills, and the geometry vanishes under noise; the children arrange themselves by an older law that the furniture has never managed to override, so that the back row is a country with its own customs and the front row a small anxious embassy. For forty minutes two systems occupy the same air. One is written on the timetable. The other is not written anywhere, and is the one every adult in the building can still, without effort, remember.
Fonte: English for ALL (texto original).
A expressão "two systems occupy the same air" refere-se, no texto, à coexistência entre
- A) o discurso pedagógico dos cartazes e mapas e o conteúdo efetivamente ministrado pelo professor durante os quarenta minutos de aula.
- B) o silêncio produtivo da sala vazia e o ruído improdutivo que se instala assim que os estudantes ocupam o espaço.
- C) a intenção declarada de iluminar o ambiente pelas janelas altas e o efeito real de isolamento visual que essa escolha arquitetônica produz.
- D) a hierarquia formal entre professor e turma e a hierarquia informal que os próprios professores estabelecem entre si no edifício.
- E) a ordem oficial inscrita na arquitetura e no horário e uma ordem social espontânea dos alunos, sendo esta última a que permanece na memória dos adultos.