Importance of Education and Democracy

The first thing we have to understand is that we can

quite easily

live in a much more decent country than the one we're living in.

In a more democratic country, in a country with a fairer dis-distribution of

income, in a country

with better health care, but above all, a country with

better education.

That's a difficult thing that takes

courage, that takes, I would say,

love, you know? Love not in the sense

of the sappy way that word can sometimes be used.

It takes—it takes a certain courage to love the very

educational process, which is a process of learning.

That means respecting the masses

of ordinary people, the working classes, respecting

what they already know simply because they're alive.

And from there, together with them, go beyond what they already know and

As they know, because it's their right.

Every cruzeiro invested in education isn't a cruzeiro wasted.