In these recent days Italian schools, universities and the whole research system are under a general turmoil for the remarkable reduction in financial resources the present government is about to implement towards this sensitive sector for our society as a whole and for the consistent cuts in human resources, above all a high number of temporary workers (teachers, research assistants, lecturers, support staff, etc.). It seems that the rescue program for financial institutions will be paid by university, research and education.
Last week, I have got the occasion to discuss this issue (see "Rescuing Italian Scientific Research") and for this reason I didn't want to write something about these topics again. Yet yesterday, watching TV I have noticed some statements of the italian prime minister and I have to say that I remained rather shocked and impressed. Those menacing tones against students and the school and univeristies' personnel (who are presently occupying many italian universities and are organizing protests in many italian cities often with clashes with police), and against the present journalists accused to diffuse false news, were extremely annoying essentially for the uselessness of such a behaviour which surely doesn't contribute to reduce tension. Instead of finding a dialogue ad opening a discussion to understand the reasons of such tension, the premier opts for "precise instructions" to the Interior Minister (treated as he was his personal employee...) to impose law and order: he recalls the term "laws" to his liking when in so many times he violated the law for frauds and corruption. It is extremely difficult to receive such lessons from similar persons...
Watching TV, I have also remembered the different style he recently used during his speech at the conference of the Italian Industrial Association where he used complicity tones and winks: "only we entrepreneurs really know what work really means!"
Putting these two events in direct relation, it is quite clear that this government is trying to satisfy its electoral base in any way (surely not composed of school and unversity temporary workers). Secondly these individuals cannot accept the idea that someone can refuse the model they are trying to impose to the whole italian society based on the relations between a "director general" and his employees.
Unfortunately for them, schools and universities will keep on contributing to build, even with scarce resources, a free and independent thought as clearly showed by the present protests...
Last week, I have got the occasion to discuss this issue (see "Rescuing Italian Scientific Research") and for this reason I didn't want to write something about these topics again. Yet yesterday, watching TV I have noticed some statements of the italian prime minister and I have to say that I remained rather shocked and impressed. Those menacing tones against students and the school and univeristies' personnel (who are presently occupying many italian universities and are organizing protests in many italian cities often with clashes with police), and against the present journalists accused to diffuse false news, were extremely annoying essentially for the uselessness of such a behaviour which surely doesn't contribute to reduce tension. Instead of finding a dialogue ad opening a discussion to understand the reasons of such tension, the premier opts for "precise instructions" to the Interior Minister (treated as he was his personal employee...) to impose law and order: he recalls the term "laws" to his liking when in so many times he violated the law for frauds and corruption. It is extremely difficult to receive such lessons from similar persons...
Watching TV, I have also remembered the different style he recently used during his speech at the conference of the Italian Industrial Association where he used complicity tones and winks: "only we entrepreneurs really know what work really means!"
Putting these two events in direct relation, it is quite clear that this government is trying to satisfy its electoral base in any way (surely not composed of school and unversity temporary workers). Secondly these individuals cannot accept the idea that someone can refuse the model they are trying to impose to the whole italian society based on the relations between a "director general" and his employees.
Unfortunately for them, schools and universities will keep on contributing to build, even with scarce resources, a free and independent thought as clearly showed by the present protests...
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