President Alberto Fernandez carried out this Monday, during the presentation of the “Books to Learn” program in a Marcos Paz kindergarten, an open defense of the teachers of Argentina, following the president of the PRO, Patricia Bullrichwould say that “teachers have to be much more educated than they are”.
This weekend, on his way through “Lunching with Mirtha Legrand”, Bullrich once once more used the PRO’s electoral battle horse, education, and said that the country’s teachers “have to be more cultured.”
“Tell me where the teachers come from to teach those teachers”raised Bullrich, before affirming that “the 1,500 institutes to train teachers that exist in Argentina have owners, who are trade unionists.”
Who first came out to answer him was Alberto Sileoni, general director of Culture and Education of the province of Buenos Aires. “While in some media we witness the reiterated repertoire of contempt and ignoranceIn the province, we continue to work with our 180 Higher Teacher Training Institutes, where around 170,000 students study, transforming careers and study plans,” said the official.
This Monday, President Alberto Fernández, who participated in the Presentation of the “Books to Learn” Program in the Kindergarten No. 915 of Marcos Paz, together with Sileoni and the Minister of Education, Jaime Perczyk.
Addressing especially the initial level teachers present at the site, he made an open defense of the teachers, following Bullrich’s words. Fernandez thanked them for “doing so much, silently, for our little children in their early years,” for “sowing so much in those children that we love and trust so much.”
In your message, Fernández reiterated that the “best investment” that a government can make is the one it makes to educate, since “the richest societies are not those that have oil, lithium, gold, copper, they are those that have developed intelligence”.
In that same sense, pointed out the contrasts between the educational policy of his Governmentwhich delivered half a million netbooks from the Connect Equality program and awarded 1.5 million Progresar scholarships, and the one carried out by the management of former president Mauricio Macricharacterized by less investment in education and the closure or weakening of these programs.
When the Frente de Todos came to power, it also recalled, “196 educational works had been paralyzed in the province of Buenos Airessome with 70 percent of their development”.
Regarding the distribution of books, the president explained that Between 2016 and 2019, 9 million books were delivered and he said that his administration aspires “to multiply that number by more than 3.”
“Last year we distributed 8.5 million books. In this time we have distributed 12 million, and we aspire to distribute 36 million books“, Fernandez anticipated,
Regarding reading, he highlighted the “magic” of books and the importance of cultivating the habit of reading from an early age. “It is entering an imaginary world, getting into that world. That is the wonder of novels and stories. Books offer us poetry and enter us into the depths of our soul, and a verse is capable of penetrating us for life and stay in our spirit. Being able to access books is something that we must not stop instilling“, he stressed.
In addition, the president concluded, “In reading, a healthy rebellion is built, of wanting to build the world to which one aspires”.
“Books to Learn”, according to official sources, will distribute more than 3,400,000 copies to more than 1,300,000 children in 18,000 schools throughout the country. The investment total round the 2,800 million pesos.
