Lula no SBT: Educação não é gasto, é investimento
You mentioned more investments in education and promised transformations in [music] education over the next 10 years. Does it fit in the budget, Mr. President? It fits, it counts, it fits. I'll tell you why I, who do n't have a university degree, only a diploma as a lathe operator, am the president who created the most universities, the most university extension programs, the most federal institutes, the most students enrolled in full-time schools, and the most savings accounts. I inherited 140 federal institutes, I will deliver 802, and I want to reach 1000. Of the 340 campuses in federal units in the history of Brazil, I was responsible for 200 of them. Just to say that when I talk about education, it's because a prisoner in a maximum security prison costs R$ 40,000 per year. A student studying space pharmacy at the Federal University of OBC costs only R$ 20,000. A prisoner in the regular São Paulo police force costs R$ 35,000 per year. For a student to take, you know, a course at the Federal Institute, it costs only R$ 16,000. This means it's much cheaper to prevent people from becoming criminals than to imprison them later. I want to put all the boys in full-time school, [music] not only to improve the quality of education, but to give peace of mind to the father and mother with their child in a full-time school . I [music] want to do this in high school as well, and I want to create innovative courses at Brazilian universities. So my commitment is this : there is no country in the history of humanity that has succeeded without first investing in education. I'm going to do this because I want the working man's son to have the same opportunities as the rich man's son. Well, it's my priority. I'm going to create an education investment plan because I'm going to be responsible for rescuing this country from the educational neglect it has been subjected to for 420 years. เ