Letter to a Teacher is one of the most powerful criticisms of the injustices of the conventional educational system. Written in 1967 by eight students of the Barbiana school (located in Tuscania, Italy), the book that soon became a bestseller in several languages. This document is a powerful criticism of the injustices of the school system written by poor students. The book was the outcome of a year-long collaborative project coordinated by teacher Lorenzo Milani at the end of his life. The schoolboys of Barbiana clearly examined the class bias of public schools. Using clear - and sometimes angry - language, challenging ideas, supported by data and examples. In their letter, the children exposed the variety of overt and covert mechanisms used by schools to discriminate against poor students.

“Because those excluded have greater capacity when we come together. For a social justice orientated education, one predicated on rigour, love, care, collective work and vivid imagination. Schooling that is open to all and serves as an antidote to the prevailing system, not just to create and provide full and willing nodes to operate within the mechanisms of neoliberal power.”
— Anti-University Now