Bicycle and Dream, or Prom 2026
On Thursday evening, 8 January, the entire school community celebrated an important moment of symbolic passing of hundred days separating students from the start of their final exams. Referring to the coordinator’s dream and his speech, headteacher Anna Sobala-Zbroszczyk began the ceremony by recalling the important distinction between nature and culture and the changes in the understanding of childhood made by Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Headteacher Sobala-Zbroszczyk drew attention to opening up before the final-year students of a world of adulthood, a world of freedom, personal choices and personal goals, in which it is not easy to maintain balance and in which failures are inevitable. She therefore wished the graduates to persevere in their efforts and to remain steadfast in their actions in the name of kindness, freedom and equality. She referred to the words of Albert Einstein, who compared life to riding a bicycle, where one must keep moving in order to maintain balance.
Next, coordinator Tomasz Mazur took the floor and shared a reflection that came to him in a dream. He dreamed about the adulthood of his charges and the challenges they face. One of the most important challenges and tasks of an adult is to have a consistent and thoughtful attitude towards all duties and norms, i.e. to decide when to comply with them and when to question them. As is often the case with Stoics, help came from the world of philosophers and two anecdotes illustrating two different situations: an embarrassed Aristotelian, who, ashamed of his physis, was persuaded to accept it by the friendly attitude of a Cynic, and an ailing Kant, who could not imagine that even his own physical weakness could prevent him from showing respect to a friend.
In conclusion, the coordinator assured the final-year students that as adults they would encounter norms and expectations, sometimes a matter of convention, or superstition, and those ones which we should all fulfill as human beings. It is up to adults to make choices. He wished them luck and perseverance in this mission.
The prom began with a ceremonial polonaise, and the great fun continued until late in the evening.
(text: Beata Ciacek, translated with DeepL.com ; photos: Ewelina Mościcka)
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