(ANSA) - ROME, MAY 27 - Italy's founding charter, the
Constitution, states that school should not be a means of social
selection, President Sergio Mattarella said at a ceremony
marking the centenary of the birth of Catholic priest and
historic educator of the poor Don Lorenzo Milani.
"In his inimitable action as an educator - and his 'boys' can
testify to this - he thought, rather, of the school as a place
of promotion and not of social selection.
"A conception full of modernity, far ahead of those who lingered
on models that differed from the constitutional dictate," said
Mattarella of the famous educator, who taught poor children in
the Florence area before dying at the age of 54 in 1967. (ANSA).
Charter is against school as social selection - Mattarella
Must be placed of promotion as Don Milan said says presisdent