Valditara talks about dinosaurs again: “What do we care about a feline that lived 40 million years ago”

Valditara returns to talking about dinosaurs and takes things further: "It's fine to know that they existed, but knowing all the species, even a feline that lived in America 40 million years ago, what nonsense"

ROME – In video connection with the Dirigentiscuola conference in Bari, the Minister of Education Giuseppe Valditara returns to talk about dinosaurs. A few weeks ago, his words about ‘too much’ studied dinosaurs and too much space dedicated to dinosaurs and prehistory in school curricula caused a lot of discussion. “There’s too much stuff – said Valditara -. In third grade we go on to explain all the species of dinosaurs, what’s the point of all this? And then we don’t know the most important experiences of our past which gave us the great values of ‘West…”.

“A DAY LOST TALKING ABOUT A FELINE THAT LIVED 40 MILLION YEARS AGO“

Today he talked about it again and made things worse: “I didn’t say that they shouldn’t know the Cretaceous, the Paleozoic, or that dinosaurs existed. But know all the species of dinosaurs, even the name of that feline that lived in America 40 million years ago… They wasted a day in a school in Rome talking about a feline that lived in Mexico 40 million years ago, who cares , excuse me. This is nonsense, because it’s one thing to say that there was an evolution, and I recognize the importance of Darwinian theory, for goodness sake’s. man himself there has been an evolution – he concludes – is to remember the various eras, the various bases that finally led to the civilization of bronze, iron and so on”.

“AT SCHOOL A YEAR ABOUT DINOSAURS, BUT THERE IS ALSO MORE”

And again: it’s fine “to remember that there were dinosaurs”, warns Valditara, but being “still on these things from September to April” must not make us “forget Greek history, Roman history, our Renaissance, our Risorgimento”. In short, a year ‘wasted’ studying velociraptors, triceratops and T-Rexes is really too much for the minister.