(ANSA) - MILAN, 06 FEB - "Talking about memory, and not just remembering the Shoah, engages the whole community. It is a specific duty of the school, a place where children must be placed in the condition of having a sense of the word, of I listen to then have a sense of responsibility in confronting others ".
The Minister of Education, Patrizio Bianchi, said this in a video link at the Shoah Memorial in Milan, where, as every year, the deportation of Jews from Milan Central Station was commemorated.
"The past can return in two ways: in memory, which is often personal, which re-emerges and is given to others, and in memory, which is a collective fact - added the minister -.
Not forgetting it is a duty, not only of the children, but also of the adults, not only of the teachers, who have assumed the duty of being educators. "" We must say no to all forms of violence, paying great attention above all to that of words - Bianchi concluded -.
We must remove all forms of hatred from us and this is why memory is important, which in itself is an educational content.
The banality of evil is the greatest risk that we must avoid by giving our children self-awareness ". (ANSA).