Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-09-08-Speech-5-032"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-09-08"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:European Year of Lifelong Learning (1996)2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20000908.4.5-032"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-09-08-Speech-5-0332
lpv:speaker	lp:John Purvis2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, paragraph 16 of Mrs Gutiérrez-Cortines' excellent report calls for training designed to correct school failures. It would be far better if we could avoid that sort of failure. The saddest case of all is a school leaver with no qualifications to his credit descending into hopelessness. A situation which becomes sadder and sadder as the occupations available to those with no qualifications become scarcer and scarcer. The reason is often that the young teenager is discouraged from learning by the rigidities of an education system that sticks to established lines and tries to fit square pegs into round holes. I appeal to the Commission to look favourably on a research programme into the use and development of aptitude tests to identify at an early stage – 12 or 13 years old at the latest – what a young person is going to be good at, no matter what that profession, occupation or job may be. Schools have to respond by providing courses at which young people will succeed. Success encourages further ambition. It means satisfied, enthusiastic teenagers instead of discouraged troublemakers. It means school-leavers with light in their eyes, with excitement about the future, able to contribute to society. It means school-leavers with a passport to a better and more fulfilling life. Nothing is more vital to the future of Europe than the young people who are going to build that Europe. There is not one young person who cannot play his part. We have to enable this sadly wasted potential to be mobilised and to succeed."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	member; EPP-ED (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Bulgaria Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-10-08--2002-01-14)3 substitute; ECON (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; Delegation for relations with the Mashreq countries and the Gulf (1999-10-06--2002-01-14)3 member; Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Purvis (PPE-DE )."1

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