Special thanks to Saamaya February 11, 1950, in Rome, at the Third Congress of the Association in Defence of the national school (ADSN), Piero Calamandrei, journalist, lawyer, politician and university professor uttered the following speech:
" When the school is strong and sure thing, then, but only then, the private school is not dangerous. Then, but only then, the school private can be an asset. It can be a good thing that private forces, pedagogical initiatives of classes, religious groups, political groups, philosophies, cultural trends of, cooperate with the state to expand, to stimulate, and renew attempts with a variety of culture.
(...) Let us assume, so theoretically, there is a ruling party, a ruling party, which, however, formally wants to respect the constitution, not want to violate the substance. It does not make the march on Rome and transform the classroom space for the paddles, but wants to establish, without opinion, a disguised dictatorship. So, what to do to gain control of schools and to transform the State schools into Party schools? He realizes that the State schools have the defect of being impartial. There is some resistance, in those schools is always there, even under fascism has been there.
Then, the dominant party follows another path (it's all a theoretical hypothesis, mind you).
starts to neglect the public schools, to discredit, to impoverish. Let it anemizzino and begins to favor private schools.
Not all private schools.
schools of his party, that party.
And then all these treatments are beginning to go to private schools.
Cure of money and privileges. He even begins to advise the boys to go to these schools, because basically it says are better than those of the state. And maybe give themselves awards, as now I will tell you, or proposes to give awards to citizens who are willing to send their children to public schools rather than private schools. A "those" private schools. The exams are easier, unless you study and you do best.
So the private school becomes a privileged school.
The ruling party, could not transform the State schools openly in Party schools, send the dogs to schools to give priority to the state's private schools. Beware, my friends, this conference this is the point that we must discuss.
Warning, this is the recipe.
must keep an eye on the cooks of this low kitchen. The operation
is done in three ways: I have already said
- ruin the State schools. Let go to hell. Depleting their budgets. Ignore their needs.
- the mitigation monitoring and control over private schools. Do not check its reliability. Let the teachers teach you that do not have the minimum qualifications to teach. Let the examinations are jokes.
- to give public money to private schools. This is the point. Giving public money to private schools! [...] The send his son to private school is a right, so says the Constitution, but is a right to have it pay? "A right one, if you want, not exercise, but at their own expense. The citizen who wants to send his son to private school, if you pay, if not send him to public school. "
(...) Let us assume, so theoretically, there is a ruling party, a ruling party, which, however, formally wants to respect the constitution, not want to violate the substance. It does not make the march on Rome and transform the classroom space for the paddles, but wants to establish, without opinion, a disguised dictatorship. So, what to do to gain control of schools and to transform the State schools into Party schools? He realizes that the State schools have the defect of being impartial. There is some resistance, in those schools is always there, even under fascism has been there.
Then, the dominant party follows another path (it's all a theoretical hypothesis, mind you).
starts to neglect the public schools, to discredit, to impoverish. Let it anemizzino and begins to favor private schools.
Not all private schools.
schools of his party, that party.
And then all these treatments are beginning to go to private schools.
Cure of money and privileges. He even begins to advise the boys to go to these schools, because basically it says are better than those of the state. And maybe give themselves awards, as now I will tell you, or proposes to give awards to citizens who are willing to send their children to public schools rather than private schools. A "those" private schools. The exams are easier, unless you study and you do best.
So the private school becomes a privileged school.
The ruling party, could not transform the State schools openly in Party schools, send the dogs to schools to give priority to the state's private schools. Beware, my friends, this conference this is the point that we must discuss.
Warning, this is the recipe.
must keep an eye on the cooks of this low kitchen. The operation
is done in three ways: I have already said
- ruin the State schools. Let go to hell. Depleting their budgets. Ignore their needs.
- the mitigation monitoring and control over private schools. Do not check its reliability. Let the teachers teach you that do not have the minimum qualifications to teach. Let the examinations are jokes.
- to give public money to private schools. This is the point. Giving public money to private schools! [...] The send his son to private school is a right, so says the Constitution, but is a right to have it pay? "A right one, if you want, not exercise, but at their own expense. The citizen who wants to send his son to private school, if you pay, if not send him to public school. "
than ever, his words seem more current ...
