The Minister of Education sends 2 last-minute official announcements regarding students, bringing to the immediate attention of millions of Romanians the fact that he participated in the opening of the National Olympiad of Classical Languages, Ligia Deca speaking below about the importance of these types of competitions for young people in Romania.
The Minister of Education also spoke about the big problem of addictions to various vices among students from all over Romania, saying that there must be solutions for their treatment, in the context where the level of violence in schools in Romania has increased significantly in recent years .
"I have just participated in the opening of the National Olympiad of Classical Languages - Ancient Greek and Latin, which will be held these days in Timișoara. The Aula Magna of the West University of Timișoara hosted the beginning of an Olympiad that deserves all the attention for its potential to help us not forget our roots, to understand the great civilizations on which contemporary cultures were founded and, above all , for its transdisciplinary potential.
I thank the Timiș County School Inspectorate for the invitation to open this Olympiad. It was a moment that brought me not only the joy of being with children performing and their teachers, but also that of reliving an important period in my life - the one spent in my hometown, Constanța, in which the feeling belonging to a multicultural space is so powerful!
I'm glad to be here today at the opening of an Olympics that I don't think gets enough attention for the potential it has, to not forget our roots, to understand the civilizations, the great civilizations on which the great contemporary cultures were founded and especially the transdisciplinary potential that such a competition has.
I was born in Constanța, where the feeling of belonging to a multicultural and yet Romanian space also means that in school we learn a little Greek, that we learn a little Turkish language, we learn from our Aromanian colleagues, we even learn a little Russian, a bit of Bulgarian. And at the same time, the schools in Constanța keep the teaching of the Latin language as a safeguard for everything that means science and, I would say, literature.
If we do not treat the causes of negative phenomena, it is very difficult to hope that in the future they will no longer exist. You know that I see too many times in the media or, please, in different social circles, the inability to read numbers, the Latin language or to correctly read mottoes in different contexts, precisely because they are in Latin, I am not talking about ancient Greek."
