
"The school is open to all.
The lower education for at least eight years, is compulsory and free.
Capable and deserving pupils, even without financial resources, have the right to attain the highest levels of education.
The Republic makes this right through scholarships, allowances to families and other provisions, which must be attributed to the competition. "
above This is not a piece of Thomas More's Utopia, but Article 34 of our Constitution.
The right to education is, in fact, a constitutional law and a global public good, at least what we read in the Republican Constitution and in the most recent guidelines of the Council of Europe and UNESCO .
Education to critical thinking - they say together eminent philosophers and political theorists such Amartya Sen, Robert Dahl and Edgar Morin - is essential in order to build democratic citizenship and to educate citizens to respect for political rights is the gentle and not aggressive. The fund, which finances the
scholarships for university students in the fall next year from its present 96 million to € 70 million euro, bringing Italy back decades and leaving her in trouble chasing the other European countries (in biennium 2009/2010 in Italy benefited from scholarship students, against 151,760 to more than half a million students holding scholarships in Germany and as many France). The cuts
PhDs and researchers, then, our country firmly anchored to the shares of the Eighties (1.2% of budget expenditure in the sector), against the Lisbon objective of seeking 3 % for 2010 EU Member States. We
Youth Directors for Peace and Human Rights, recognizing the need for serious education policy and pro-active approach of university research to substantiate the concept of democracy and give momentum to the Italian Constitution, express our indignation against the budget package 2011. A measure so foolhardy risk of impoverishing the constitutional test and make uncertain the right to equality in access to fair credit assessment.
The GAP (Youth Directors for Peace) ensure its support and its proximity to the Union of University Students and their events of 29 October on the territory. The world of knowledge manifests measures against reckless and incapable of understanding the right to education as the pivot on which a lever to get out of the economic crisis, the Young Directors of Peace, once again, are with students, researchers, and the precarious school.
Mattia Baglieri, Valentina Cuppi, Marco Paolucci for Young Directors Network for Peace