In Italian school you will learn and live the values \u200b\u200bof a pluralist society and change, you grow up free, knowing and thinking. But even if Berlusconi is now attacking the teachers ...
of Sergio Andreatta
against Silvio Berlusconi's phrase "the school of the State where there are teachers who want to instill in the students contrary to those principles that parents want to instill their children, "surprised, shocked and sad, also used for the acid tone, many Italians, not only belonging to the sphere by which he was addressed. And although the same words in any way subscribe to the existence of undeniable educational crisis in this country - who is due to visit - they have seemed to many people foolish and ungenerous to the Italian public school, an attack on the secularism and its traditional spirit of service and tested. They could be an injury from those who should represent the State and the public interest, almost an undue benefit to private schools where additional resources could be directed (in the form of bonuses for families), removed from public school, in exchange for votes . The drift in favor of the private school would actually be supported by a shocking downward spiral, from complacency, flattery and fluctuating captatio benevolentiae, items of food, who knows? for a future exchange vote in upcoming election campaigns. So we can not but remind us of the famous speech in defense of the national school of Calamandrei Piero (Piero Calamandrei the Third Congress of the Association in Defence of the National School, Rome February 11, 1950). Not to mention that the public shall be deemed to settled case law, all schools in some way funded by the state, including former become equal only officially recognized or private. All, in fact, are public institutions, serving the citizens free to choose. But the prime minister, one of the best and most qualified representatives of the State, it seemed surprising to disregard the parts of our present Constitution. "The Repubblica detta le norme generali sull'istruzione (art. 33) ed istituisce scuole statali per tutti gli ordini e gradi". "Enti e privati hanno il diritto di istituire scuole ed istituti di educazione, senza oneri per lo Stato". Nei confronti delle scuole non statali (ma non per questo meno pubbliche, ripetiamo), "la legge nel fissare i diritti e gli obblighi... deve assicurare ad esse piena libertà e ai loro alunni un trattamento scolastico equipollente a quello degli alunni di scuole statali". Quindi la piena libertà già assicurata dalla Costituzione alle scuole non statali dovrebbe essere, per l'attuale presidente del Consiglio, assurdamente negata alle scuole statali? Libertà da negare, forse, ai docenti (attori protagonisti della school) does not pro-government or, ideally, not quite complacent with their parents in a large mass of his constituents? Freedom from those who do not deny "inculchi" the same values \u200b\u200band the same ideas. Even in very bad if this metaphor of teacher-instill the idea for calling a teacher passed Quintilian and his vessel for two thousand years, attempting in vain to fill. "Inculcate" is the unfortunate term used by Prime Minister Berlusconi on the occasion of his meeting-meeting with the Christian reformers. But inculcate (from Lat. In-culcare/in-calcare) is a term that is going to impress deeply and almost force the soul of others with almost-convert with a persevering - and not psychological - persuasion. The teachers in spite of a substantial number of their independence of thought and method, should therefore conform to the dominant culture rather than educate the criticality and independence of opinion? Should be subordinated to the majority of the parents' habits, even if "bad parents", would say A. Berge, because lax in their overprotective and uncertain and precarious, if not nonexistent, educational value? But the public school that is secular, not sectarian, has a specific mission which is to educate and raise people free, informed and thoughtful while many of the same parents, rather than the teachers, along with a lethal mix of reasons as the influence of conditioning media, social networks of the peer group of street fashions are in the scenarios of the origin-educational emergency. Teachers (more than 800 thousand in Italy) more and more uncomfortable and leave, then, in the solitude of their own against everything and maybe even take a bite of their salaries humiliating and debasing the dignity of their authority. And how could they improve the situation and action to combat decadence and effective deconditioning of negative inputs other educational agencies, among which must also include the work of the Church itself? As the recognized quality education to politics these days seem a paradox. In this context, the public school governing processes education and education as it may, in many cases with excellent results, but certainly in respect of the Constitution which provides two alternative models of education but not at all competitive, and exclusion among them. And though the option seems clearly planned for the school of the State and not vice versa, every citizen is free, well, fortunately, contact the agency that collects most of his confidence. Certainly if the public school would not be continually weakened by continuous cuts in resources (132mila fewer seats in the three years) and moral mortification probably succeed in doing even better defined by the ministerial program (of which the government has responsibility direct) but also in respect of freedom of instruction. Unacceptable then, if not more severe, the prime minister's attempt to amend his first statement by adding this one: "... it must be admitted to Catholic families who send their children to public school teachers the right not to see their children values other than those they believe ...". In short, for him, plurality and multiculturalism should not exist nor the equal dignity of Article. 3 of the Constitution? It is a little ghettizante this idea of \u200b\u200beducation where everyone forms his followers without "contamination"? Perhaps the public school, which is by nature secular and democratic, should act only teachers di IRC e affini? Se mi si parla , invece, non di principi ma di pratiche sarei d'accordo sul fatto che ci vorrebbe meno indifferenza sulla produttività di un insegnante. Non deve essere più così inverificabile l'operato di un insegnante. E se un insegnante non raggiungesse i traguardi prescritti sarebbe facile desumerlo anche dalle stesse prove INVALSI o da altre ancora da introdurre. Gli stessi dirigenti scolastici, che amministrano fino a un centinaio di persone tra docenti e ATA, sono qualificati e in grado - essi stessi monitorati - di valutarne ancor prima l'operatività nel loro contesto sociale e operativo. Perché se sui valori personali e professionali la libertà non può essere assolutamente intaccata né barattata, se bisogna ensure freedom of method (and "everything is reached depends on the method," wrote J. Bruner), about educational processes and outcomes of education there should be trading too much to do or to allow extensions. But it does not launch, even indirectly, to spot a nostalgic regression to the times of the fascist era when you remove him from the system those who, although skilled in their teaching, not accepted for reasons of religion or ideals, to submit to the oath governativo.Sergio Andreatta is an educator, a psychologist, the doyen of Italian school managers, one that does not take lessons rough, even if influenced by a Berlusconi knows nothing about the matter. Everyone should do his job without invade the field of others. In the field of public education (though no longer now the Ministry of Education) where I work for 44 years (primary) school Italian (for reliable international assessments of the OECD-PISA) has been, and perhaps still is, to ' advanced second comparative analysis with other systems of primary education in the world. Why, then, with the latest reforms (Moratti - Gelmini) this education sector has been dismantled, only more streamlined? As it does, and why and demonstrable arguments, Mrs V. Aprea, former undersecretary of MIUR, to support the opposite? Why were drastically reduced human resources, financial and professional? Delle tre enfatizzate "I" che cosa è ancora rimasto? L'Inglese, l'Informatica, l'Imprenditoria? Già alle elementari l'inglese risulta ridotto in ore e qualità. Gli specialisti (spesso laureati in lingua inglese) saranno presto dirottati su posti comuni e la lingua straniera verrà insegnata da maestri ordinari infarinati da corsetti di appena 400 ore o meno. Per l'informatica ci si avvale di pochi computer obsoleti, spesso neanche collegati in rete perchè mancano i soldi per sostenere gli abbonamenti. Per l'imprenditoria... da essa non arriva neanche un'attenzione per qualche significativo progetto da sponsorizzare. Perché non è mai stata inaugurata una buona politica del merito, premiale per i tanti lodevoli docenti che lavorano in public schools? Because the school buildings is often not certified in accordance with, comfortable and modern, equipped with gyms and new technologies? In the confusion too often forget that the question involves highly educational and absolutely first of all the families and the values \u200b\u200bpracticed at home and shared by its members. The issue of education is more technically a prerogative of teachers. But as he has influenced and will influence these values \u200b\u200bon which an adolescent is identified, a vulgar and flying commercial TV? And few know that in this world of dignity to drift even some parents refuse to sign the pact of co-educational efforts would then and the attempt of a joint synergy between family and school. Yet everyone knows Articles. 30 and 33 of the Constitution. The first is the duty and right of parents to support and educate their children even if born outside marriage ", the second" the art and science are free and they have free education. " Unlistenable too offensive and, therefore, the intervention of Prime Minister from the stands. The attack on public schools, despite some belated attempt to remedy has failed miserably to call because of the misunderstanding of others and not outsource its wrong, after what has come before the judiciary and to the Quirinale. And if the social order, in the famous fable of Menenio Agrippa (493 BC) è paragonabile al corpo umano dove tutte le parti sono tra loro connesse, se collaborano insieme sopravvivono, se litigano e discordano insieme periscono (..."discordia pereunt, concordia valent"). Quindi con questi continui e pretestuosi attacchi alla Costituzione nella sua tripartizione dei poteri si corre il rischio di far perire lo Stato nel senso che se ne indebolisce il concetto nella coscienza dei cittadini, se ne mina l'autorità. Bruttissimi segnali (nel segno e nel significante), comunque, proprio nel 150° anniversario della proclamazione dello Stato unitario italiano (14.03.1861) e dell'esaltazione simbolica del tricolore nazionale che ci accingiamo a festeggiare solennemente il prossimo 17 marzo. © - Sergio Andreatta, da: www.andreatta.it, Are reserved.
