Today I entrust myself totally to the words of a great Italian: Piero Calamandrei. Read, even if it is a bit 'long. It is really worthwhile.
Let us assume, so theoretically, there is a ruling party, a ruling party, which, however, formally wants to respect the constitution, not want to violate the substance. It does not make the march on Rome and transform the classroom space for the paddles, but wants to establish, without opinion, a disguised dictatorship. So, what to do to gain control of schools and to transform the State schools into Party schools? He realizes that the State schools have the defect of being impartial. There is some resistance, in those schools is always there, even under fascism has been there.
Then, the dominant party follows another path (it's all a theoretical hypothesis, mind you). He begins to neglect the public schools, to discredit, to impoverish. Let it anemizzino and begins to favor private schools. Not all private schools. The schools of his party, that party. And then all these treatments are beginning to go to private schools. Cure of money and privileges. He even begins to advise the boys to go to these schools, because basically it says are better than those of the state. And maybe give themselves awards, as now I will tell you, or proposes to give awards to citizens who are willing to send their children rather than to public schools to private schools. A "those" private schools. The exams are easier, unless you study and you do best. So the private school becomes a privileged school. The ruling party, could not transform the State schools openly in Party schools, send the dogs to schools to give priority to the state's private schools. careful, friends, this conference this is the point that we must discuss. Warning, this is the recipe. We must keep an eye on the cooks of this low kitchen. The operation is done in three ways: I have already said
- ruin the State schools. Let go to hell. Impoverish their budgets. Ignore their needs.
- the mitigation monitoring and control over private schools. Do not check its reliability. Let the teachers teach you that do not have the minimum qualifications to teach. Let the examinations are jokes.
- to give public money to private schools. This is the point. Giving public money to private schools!
This is the most dangerous, the most dangerous phase of the whole operation [...]. This then is the point, is the most dangerous method. Money for all citizens, all taxpayers of all believers in the different religions, all belonging to different parties, which instead is intended to contribute to the schools of one religion, one sect, of one party [...]. To predict this risk, it did not take a lot of mischief. During the Constituent Assembly, to prevent it in art. 33 of the Constitution was put this provision: "Public and private persons have the right to establish schools and educational institutions at no cost to the state." As you know this formula was born from a compromise, and like all born of compromise formulas, has the right today to sophistical interpretations [...]. But there's another issue that came up, which are expected to circumvent the law. This is what we lawyers call the "circumvention of the law", which is that something that customers ask causidici unscrupulous, to which the customer is directed to find out how it can break the law appearing to observe it [...]. And so out came the idea of \u200b\u200bfamily allowance, education of family allowance.
Minister of Education at the International Congress of the Family Institute, said the private school must serve to "stimulate" the most non-state expenditures for education, but should not be excluded that the state gives subsidies to private schools. But he added: think, if a father wants to send his son to private school, they need to pay taxes. And this father is a citizen as a taxpayer who has already paid his fee to participate in the spending that the state pays for public schools. So this poor father has to pay twice the fee. Then this worthy citizen who wants to send her son to private school, to lift this double burden, it is given a family allowance. Who wants to send her son to private school, then turns to the state and has a grant, a check [...]. The
send his son to private school is a right, so says the Constitution, but it is a right to have it pay? a right one, if you want, not exercise, but at their own expense. The citizen who wants to send her son to private school, if you pay, if not send him to public school. To make a comparison, in the field of Justice could make a speech like that. You know how to get justice courts are public, however, citizens have the right to decide their dispute even by the officials. But arbitration is expensive and often costs hundreds of thousands of dollars. Yet it has never occurred to a citizen, who prefers public arbitration courts, to apply to the State to ask for a subsidy in order to pay for the referees! [...]. So this game of family allowances would, if adopted, a kind of incentive paid to boycott the schools of the state and therefore an indirect way of encouraging some schools, a reward for those who send their children to private schools where they made certain not citizens and even those who believe in a certain religion, something that can be respectable, but are manufactured in the voters of a certain party.
Piero Calamandrei, 1950
Part of the speech given by Piero Calamandrei the third congress of the Association in Defence of the National School (ADSN) in Rome on 11 February 1950.
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