"I come from six years of university teaching work in a school, a teaching job that made me change my mind about some things: the experience I have had will push me to be also much more proactive and also much more interested in 'argument of what I have been in the past ".
This was stated by Enrico Letta, secretary of the Democratic Party, speaking at a conference, as part of the Didacta Italia fair, to which he was invited as president of the Jacques Delors Institute.
"I am the father of three boys - recalled Letta - one who goes to middle school and two who go to high school, who have experienced this period of pandemic between physical presence and Dad jumping through hoops, all three in public school. that the story that I hear from them every day is a story that makes me proud to be Italian for the teachers we have, for their dedication, because I imagine how tiring it is to teach, today much more than before ".
"I have always been of the idea that Europe will not really be born if we do not do the compulsory Erasmus for students. The Next Generation Eu has to allocate a part of the money to have a period in another European country. I say the teachers are terrified for 3 months 'thrown away' but the experience that a boy has going abroad for three months ", will make him understand that problems can be solved together with other countries.
This was stated by the secretary of the Democratic Party Enrico Letta speaking in Didacta.
"Erasmus must not depend on the economic availability of families: our country is dividing by wealth, all those who have resources, make their children experience abroad, because everyone knows the importance of education abroad: but so it is the opposite of the social elevator. With the Next generation Eu there is no waste of resources that divides between those who can and those who cannot, if we have done this we will have made the Europe of European citizens. a project of this type generates the community of young European citizens ", added Letta.
"The main question for me is to close this school year better than we ended last school year: I think this is a commitment for everyone".
This was stated by Enrico Letta, secretary of the Democratic Party, speaking at a conference, as part of the Didacta Italia fair, to which he was invited as president of the Jacques Delors Institute.
"We want to do everything - he added - so that this year we can have a conclusion that is a conclusion, taking into account the fact that last year was a year with a strong presence of Dad; and that the final phase is a growing phase, not a declining phase. I think this is the main challenge we face. "
Letta stressed "the effort on the part of teachers", because "it is much more difficult to teach online, it is very difficult, and those who say 'But what do teachers want, they stay at home and connect', it means that they have no experience of what it means to teach online ".
"The youth question is the central question of our country", and for this reason "I tried to launch a proposal the other day that I know is divisive, namely that of voting for sixteen, seventeen, in a country, ours, which does not even give the vote to the Senate to 24-year-olds ".
Letta recalled that "in Italy today a 24-year-old does not vote for the Senate, but only for the Chamber, and therefore already for example close the game to vote for the Senate for eighteen-year-olds, and it does not take much to close the process parliamentary, it would be fundamental. But giving weight to the youth issue and the voice of young people is also forcing 16-year-olds to get an idea, because in the end if we force them to get an idea if they do it. of the country will go to ramengo if there are two cohorts of a million students in all who will have this experience ".
For the 16-year-old vote, "let's start with the administrative ones", for example for municipal administrations.
The possibility of doing this - he added - in my opinion would be extraordinary, how nice it would be in class to open discussions on this topic, in my opinion it would be only a positive thing ".