“I definitely used an inappropriate wording,” Valditara, a member of the far-right League party, said last night.
After the uproar that was created, the Italian Minister of Education Giuseppe Valditara expressed regret for his comment regarding the … beneficial role of humiliating students in schools.
“I definitely used an inappropriate wording,” Valditara, a member of the far-right League party, said last night.
At an event in Milan on Monday, the Italian education minister said: “Long live humility. It is a key factor in adulthood and personality formation.” Reiterating his position on community service programs for students who display violent behavior, Valditara argued that “only by working for the community, by humbling yourself (can you comply with them), live the humiliation, which is a fundamental factor of development and character building, with respect for your classmates, there you take responsibility for your actions and do work for the community. In humiliation lies redemption.”
His remarks on Monday referred to the case of a student who was expelled from school for hitting a teacher. Valditara opined that imposing social work would be more beneficial.
“I pointed out that it was not very reasonable to suspend this boy for a year,” he said.
The opposition politicians criticized the statements of the 61-year-old minister. “The school must be a place of democracy, not repression’ Alessandro Zhan, a social democrat, wrote on Twitter.
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