The head of the Italian bishops
association said on the centenary of the birth of great educator
Don Lorenzo Milani Saturday that school should not certify
demerits and should always defend all of its pupils in their
varying abilities.
On the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Milani, "a priest
and Italian citizen", the Cardinal President of the Italian
Bishops Conference (CEI), Matteo Zuppi, asked everyone to look
at his "lesson" that is "for everyone, believers and
non-believers alike": "to change things it is not necessary to
fall in love with one's own ideas, but to put oneself in the
shoes of the children of then and now" and "not be torn from a
destiny already marked out".
Therefore, Zuppi said we need "a school that defends them more
than any other teacher, a school that does not certify demerit
but guarantees everyone their merit, the same opportunities
because it does not cut the cake into equal parts, when those
who have to eat are not equal".
Italy's rightwing government has added the word 'merit' to the
name of the education ministry.
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