The Minister of Education and Science Mila Carovska at a symposium in Krakow, Poland, dedicated to anti-Semitism, organized by the European Jewish Association, stressed that each generation should focus on acquiring true ethical, moral and human values and recognizing negative social phenomena such as discrimination, hatred and intolerance, so that new serious Holocaust-like disasters do not occur.
– It requires the development of individual and collective consciousness in every society, and we, politicians and statesmen, can greatly contribute to achieving this goal. The traumatic events and crimes of the past should be a lesson for us in the present and we should strive to create a better society for everyone, in which there will be no or unpleasant events will be reduced to a minimum. We can achieve this mostly through the education system, because the school is the right place where positive values are learned and developed from an early age. In that direction are the new curricula and materials that we are introducing in Northern Macedonia in stages, which study equality, inclusiveness, multiculturalism, tolerance, respect for rights and diversity, said Carovska.
As informed by the Ministry of Education and Science, the Minister emphasized that anti-Semitism is not just a lesson in textbooks in the Macedonian education system. This topic is not studied only through one text written on one or two pages of a textbook in a class, but, he said, it is a topic that is systematically developed on several levels, in several classes.
– Extracurricular activities are organized, students visit the Holocaust Memorial Center of the Jews of Northern Macedonia located in Skopje and thus sensitize the issue of the Holocaust, and young people are educated to contribute to never again such a catastrophe, said Carovska at the symposium, which was attended by the ministers and state secretaries of education of Germany, the Netherlands, Great Britain, France, as well as the Speakers of the Parliaments of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro.
After the symposium in Krakow, according to the Ministry of Education and Science, the participants visited the concentration camp – Auschwitz Museum, where they paid tribute to the victims of the Holocaust.
Source: MIA
