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"Madam President, according to Hegel, culture – that is, philosophy – spreads its wings only at the falling of the dusk, but it is getting on for dawn here!
In any case, in my capacity as shadow rapporteur for the Committee on Culture, Youth, Education, the Media and Sport for the Martens report, I would like to start by thanking and congratulating the rapporteur on her work. I am not greatly opposed to any of it and would just like to highlight a few particularly important points.
I feel that it is important – as the draftsman of the opinion of the Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy has also pointed out – that this report should address the issue of education not just in terms of professional training, of the development of skills which will increase our citizens’ chances of finding high quality work, but also in terms of more general education, of which school education is part in a wider sense, directing it towards a humanistic culture which – although it does not directly provide professional skills – certainly achieves that task of social cohesion which is our goal.
The same may be said of the report’s focus on equal opportunities for all citizens and the possibility that European Community action might remove those gaps, those divergences and distances which, in our society, still divide those who have skills, who have access to a computer and information technology, for example, from those who are still excluded from this world. These are the main principles of the Martens report and I feel that Parliament cannot fail to support them. This is the line taken in both the report’s declarations of principle and its practical recommendations: it focuses especially on the need to root and ground these recommendations in the changes currently taking place in the world of communications and in new teaching methods and, above all, to facilitate the climate and conditions necessary for the need for a higher level of quantity and quality of education for all to be met. In this respect, all the measures seeking to actively involve teachers, students and trainers in the implementation of the programme are vital.
The emphasis placed on language learning, on strengthening the ties between the world of work and civil society, on the need to find more attractive images to encourage students and teachers’ learning and mobility must not, however, mask the practical root of the problem: the need for financing which respects the choices of the individual.
To this framework we need to add a top priority action plan to assess and intervene with appropriate, effective tools in the tensions which can develop in the worlds of education and work where there are cases of discrimination, with the common desire to fight racism and intolerance.
For all these reasons, the Committee on Culture thanks the rapporteur once again for her work and calls upon Parliament to adopt the Martens report."@en1
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