The Gazzettino
Monday, June 15, 2009, p.. 9
wish to speak on the teaching of the Venetian school.
In recent times several local political leaders of the world have published on these pages, long reflections related to the proposed language teaching and its variants in the Veneto region's schools recently put forward by the minister Zaia. Whether you talk about these things - for or against - it is a fact that more positive, mind you, but it can also give rise, at the same time, to incorrect interpretations. So I would like to remember, not to hurt anyone, that such proposals have been made already for decades, with arguments certainly more complex, with important cultural associations, in public appearances, and numerous articles published on websites, local newspapers and magazines and national. That is to say, beyond the political debate more or less acceptable, the motivations that underlie these demands are rooted in decades of work of many scholars Venetian and not only that - on a par with those of Catalan and Irish - have set themselves the problem except to put in these languages \u200b\u200bin the precious time of the approval. Languages \u200b\u200bthat are the heritage of all, I emphasize "all" citizens of the Veneto region (and not just the Veneto, but also part of the Friuli Venezia Giulia, Istria, Dalmatia and Montenegro as well as many other foreign places) as we speak of our history as complex and layered, the various people who have met here over the millennia. How well has shown, moreover, the late Cortellazzo in his beautiful dictionary dedicated to the city (then truly multi-ethnic) in Venice in the sixteenth century. For those who really love these languages, these instruments sound and graphics that man has found to communicate to other people their basic needs as the deepest inner aspirations, there are languages \u200b\u200bof series A and series B: this is not possible without thinking of the Italian love not to love at the same time, even the Venetian or the Piedmontese or Sardinian. And vice versa. Otherwise do not do culture worthy of being passed on to future generations but we are confined, at most, in the most grim pride. This
languages as the Venetian still wrongly disallowed by our state, we speak of values, experience gained over the centuries, handed down from father to son, before a false idea of \u200b\u200bprogress, linked to a myopic view of the concept of nation and even to many commercial interests, not begin to try to persuade people to dispose of this immense fortune to replace it with more or less real values. The transition was so often to keep up (in the sense of those who still work and sometimes perfect) to passive consumers. On the other hand, we can not accept or encourage someone to buy something if it does not need convincing that what he has available, or not good or disqualifies him socially. How many things were thrown away, along with these languages, how many animal species disappeared, how many old walls torn down to make room for alleged improvements that, over time, have proved disastrous for the environment or aesthetically well short of things to were replaced.
examples, as we know, unfortunately, could continue for pages. The problem is that this cancellation, more or less obvious, all the things that endeared us to our past, did not stop. Continues incessantly. So we must try - if we do not want to stay with no memory of what we were - to promote a culture that is opposed to this, a culture capable of understand the new generations the positives and negatives of the past history, learning to defend because there was good and at the same time, getting rid of all those preconceived ideas or visions of the party were born from poverty, ignorance, or, unfortunately , interest. So in one way or another if we believe in these things, the preservation and development of the Venetian language and its variants must be carried out (alongside the more thorough study of Italian and English you hopes) in schools. This is a necessary step. Without charges and subject to the many different cultures that make up today's diverse landscape of our world, of course, that the difference is not più vissuta come contrapposizione ma come una ricchezza di cui tutti possano godere, come un bosco ci appare tanto più bello quanto più in esso vi crescono specie d'alberi e piante tra le più diverse.
IVAN CRICO
