Roccella, Mattarella Shifts Left: “Never Silence Someone”

An intervention that will certainly give little pleasure to the left, which tirelessly contests the Meloni government. The President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, spoke this morning at the commemorations of the centenary of the birth of Don Lorenzo Milani, held in Barbiana, a town in the municipality of Vicchio (Florence) where the prior founded a school in 1954 to teach with an innovative pedagogical method for the children from the region: “Barbiana’s school lasted all day. He tried to instil a desire to learn, a willingness to work together with others. He sought to establish the habit of looking at the things of the world with a critical spirit. Without ever running away from confrontation, without pretending to shut someone up, let alone a book or your presentation. In short, he invited us to know how to discern”.

“’Letter to a teacher’, written with his children while the illness, which would have taken him at just 44, advanced, is a merciless denunciation of all this. ‘Letter to a teacher’ represented a lesson given in the face of the laziness of the educational system and motivated changes, helped to improve the school in the midst of a profound social transformation in the country. It helped to better understand the duties of institutions and urged them to consider their duties to the community. More and more professors have been working passionately to implement the new constitutional principles. Because we need to look at it.” The words of the tenant of the Quirinale in the section about the book presentation are a clear reference to the protest made against Minister Eugenia Roccella, whose presentation at the book fair in Turin last week was canceled after the raid of some leftist activists and feminists.

Source: IL Tempo

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