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"Mr President, I welcome this document and fully support the European Parliament and Council decision to promote cooperation and quality evaluation in school education. I particularly welcome the emphasis on social inclusion. Education is an important, indeed crucial, part of society. Our education has an impact on all our lives and our communities as well.
Recent reports, as those of us from the UK are aware, have tended to criticise the teaching of children at a very young age as this could prove damaging. It would therefore be good to compare and contrast with other European models, within limits of course, as my colleague Mrs Lambert has already stressed.
Spain, for example, attaches great importance to social inclusion and developing personalities, working in teams; integrating. These are placed higher on the agenda than academia and at an early age. I also fully agree with better integration between parents, pupils and teachers and the many community players who rightly want to play a role in education and its development and achieve, as a result, the idea of the school as the community.
It will also provide an excellent opportunity to encourage schools in the different regions to share in good practices. Partnerships between different countries are so important, as indeed are partnerships not only between countries but between rural and urban links. This is part of a very important twinning concept and philosophy that is well established in Europe and is proving such a success throughout all our communities. Networking is so important. I stress that the sharing of good practices and the sharing of information between the different schools in Europe should not develop into a competitive practice. We should at all costs discourage any attempt to create European league table of schools similar to that in the UK that has proved so detrimental.
I welcome the report, it is a positive paper and one that we can build on to create better educational networks within the European Union."@en1
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