RIMINI (ITALPRESS) – “We have to give an answer to our young people and the needs of our productive world because the relationship between school and the world of work and business should not suck. The business world tells us that there is a dramatic lack of skills, then we must have the courage to build a school pathway that is always in dialogue with the world of business and work.” So said Minister of Education and Merit, Giuseppe Valditara, at the Rimini Meeting. “I think we have to get out of the old model of school that considered intelligence as unitary, if we really want to put the dignity of the person at the center we can only start from this assumption. We must also strengthen those school paths that value those more concrete intelligences that instead, according to the more traditional approach, were put aside,” he added. “My vision of school is the constitutional one, the school that puts the person at the center, that revolves around the valorization of the person and the student,” he explained. “If the person is at the center we must be consequent, value the differences of talents, we must build a model of school that identifies and values them. This must be achieved, and hence the idea of the tutor teacher, which is already a small revolution, namely the idea of an education where the structure of teaching is tailored to the potential of the individual young person. There cannot be a one-size-fits-all path because there are different talents that need to be enhanced, hence the 4+2 reform where soft skills are already contained. “For the minister, it is necessary to “strengthen the teaching of Italian to foreigners, this is because we have discovered that a third of foreign students no longer go to school. If we don’t go and strengthen the teaching of Italian with a path of training and recruitment of specialized teachers, we are not doing real integration. “In my experience in these almost two years of government, there has not been a time when in the Council of Ministers we have voted with a majority, we have always compacted and, beyond legitimate differences, I believe that this majority is very clear that it is here to change Italy, to change it for the better by doing what previous governments have not been able to do starting with schools. I believe that beyond a legitimate discussion everyone has their own opinions, but then there will always be a point of synthesis,” Valditara then said during a press point, responding to a question on Ius Scholae. “I read the latest comments by Tajani, Ronzulli and Gasparri and it seems to me that we are going in this very direction,” he reiterated.Regarding the upcoming budget law, “I met with Minister Giorgetti before the summer break, I found a lot of understanding, there was a lot of attention to the issue of schools,” he explained. “Let’s not forget that last year 3 billion euros were allocated for the teachers’ contract and for the school world.
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