"Let's say that the ruling party wants to establish a disguised dictatorship. He realizes that the State schools have the defect of being impartial and begins to neglect them, to discredit, to impoverish. He began to encourage private schools. Not all. Some. And he advised the students to go into those where the exams are easier, study less and you do best. The operation is done in three ways. 1. Ruin the State schools, to let go down the drain, deplete their budgets, ignoring their needs. 2. Mitigate the supervision and control over private schools, do not check their reliability. 3. Giving public money to private schools. It is the most dangerous phase ... "
" Then there is a danger even worse: the danger of moral decay. This sense of distrust and cynicism that is spreading. The sunset of those simple ideas of the old school: the reliability, accuracy, honesty, punctuality. That school is a school of character, of honest and fair trainer. Is spreading the idea that it's not worth more than that now valid support and recommendations. What scares are dishonest, men without character, without faith, without opinions, which were once the fascists, then in words and anti-fascists were now back under different names fascist in essence, that exploiters of the system.
"But there is one last danger: be overcome by discouragement. It was rightly said that to win the first World War was the high school from which came those kids whose bodies are still on the Carso. But you can say the same old strength and all of us teachers have in my heart the name of a student who gave his life for the freedom of Italy. We think of these guys who came out of our public schools and, thinking of them, do not despair of the future. "
Calamandrei Piero (1950)
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