It has been a long time that people continue with a serious problem in education’ and it is necessary a strong State policy for the area, said Lula in a speech during a presentation of the Education Ministry on the situation of education.

Now we are trying to bring them in as accomplices of a policy that cannot be of the government, that has to be of the Brazilian State.

And for it to be of the Brazilian State, it must have the participation of the community, of the educators of this country’, the president pointed out.

As the former trade unionist assessed, the current situation of Brazilian education is a legacy of the centuries of slavery practiced in that South American country.

We are reaping the 350 years of slavery. We still live in a country where the ruling elite did not believe in education for all. University was a privilege.

The person was going to do a university course depending on the cradle in which he or she was born’, he denounced.

Lula also praised the government’s initiative to implement full-time schools throughout the country, but stressed the need for strict control over the resources allocated for this purpose.

Each fellow governor, regardless of the party to which he or she belongs, each mayor or mayoress has to keep in mind that we are going to seriously monitor this program.

Many times society does not know who is responsible for Primary Education’, he said.

Previously, the former labor leader considered that the University of Sao Paulo (USP), the oldest and most prestigious in the country, is the face of Brazil because of its diversity.

On Thursday, USP celebrated its 90th anniversary and Lula said that ‘every day it looks more like Brazil and also shows that to be part of the so-called cradle of knowledge it is not necessary to be born in a cradle of gold, Lula pondered in the ceremony that coincided with the 470th anniversary of the founding of the city of Sao Paulo, capital of the state of the same name.

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