Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-09-05-Speech-4-037"

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dcterms:Date	"2002-09-05"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:European Area of Lifelong Learning2
dcterms:Language	"it"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20020905.2.4-037"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-09-05-Speech-4-0382
lpv:speaker	lp:Luciana Sbarbati2
lpv:spokenAs	member_of_the_bureau; ELDR (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; BUDG (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 substitute; EMPL (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Partito repubblicano italiano (1999-07-20--2003-03-29)3 member; PETI (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation for relations with Israel (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, I too would like to congratulate the rapporteur on this excellent report. I do, however, have a few comments to make. We are certainly following the approach called for at Feira, but I have heard some speakers, including a colleague from my group, mention illiteracy. I would like to draw the attention of the House to this specific point: there is a disturbing degree of returning illiteracy affecting a large part of our European population as regards new technologies and new languages. The Commissioner mentioned ‘living’ in the knowledge-based society. Of course, living means interacting, but living also and above all means communicating, for, nowadays, it is those who communicate who count in society. In order to communicate, a person needs both knowledge and the ability to communicate, which means being in possession of the tools of communication – languages. This is the area where we have to make progress. This is what we must concentrate on. One consideration is training and another is teaching. If we want high-quality teaching, we must take steps to establish a common basic curriculum and review all the European education systems. As regards training, then, the individual States must strengthen these national agreements on training, working together with local communities, businesses, firms and all those who invest in the training of the young and not so young. I certainly support lifelong training, but I feel that if specific preparation, specific training in learning skills is not provided at the appropriate age, namely during school years, we will have even less chance of success with adults who are no longer open to learning. There therefore needs to be a whole strategy for strengthening primary and secondary education, and we can introduce lifelong learning measures after that. I would like to end with the comment that our countries spend less than 5% of GDP on teaching and training. It may well be that the Commission needs to take action and prepare the ground for a political and cultural debate at European level, because the knowledge-based Europe, the Europe of culture, the Europe of values, can only become reality if we invest more and differently in training ..."@en1
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"(The President cut the speaker off)"1

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