There schoolto prepare for Work. And sport, at school, as part of training and also as a tool for inclusion. The Minister of Education and Merit, Giuseppe Valditaraspoke about it while speaking in Bergamo at the «Cesare Pesenti» Institute on Monday 3 June.
«Work culture is fundamental and therefore necessary and important the connection between school and business. The school must not only provide important cultural foundations, but also the training to allow the young person to have all the tools for enter the world of work quickly and successfully. The exchange between private and public, between business and school must be increasingly encouraged: the school of the future does not forget culture but gives centrality to work”.
«My vision of school – he continued – is centered on the person of the student, on his potential and talents. For this reason it is very important, to be consistent with this vision, on the one hand orientation, which must start from middle school, but above all to ensure that technical-professional education is a first class path and not, as is often understood, as a result.”
«When I read that by 2027 we risk not being able to fill 47% of jobs that the business world will require of us – continues Valditara -, I worry about young people and companies that are losing competitiveness. In many parts of Italy many young people cannot find work or cannot find one consistent with their potential: iThe school’s task is to identify these talents, enhance them and put them in contact with the needs of the world of work.” For this reason, Valditara concluded, we must give “more and more importance to school-work alternation”.
Training, underlines the minister at the event «Towards New Games
of youth”, must be understood in a broad sense. Of the person. «When with Minister Abodi (Andrea« Abodi, Minister for Sport and Youth ed) we thought about reintroducing youth games, we thought about their importance for your education. Sport is a moment of motivation, fundamental for training. And it also teaches values, such as solidarity, team spirit and commitment. To succeed in sport and in life you have to commit.”
«That’s why – added the minister – why it is It is important to reintroduce more hours of sport and physical education even in elementary schools. And why it was important to reintroduce the youth games” for which they were
“other ministers” are also involved, such as those for Disability, Health and Agriculture, because sport “is also a time to grow up healthy and identify any problems” in health and elementary education. And then “sport is also a moment of inclusion – concluded Valditara -. All kids can play sports, even kids with disabilities. Sport unites young people with their different talents and skills.”
