Education

The Instituto de Educação General Flores da Cunha, in Porto Alegre, is an iconic space that we revitalized and returned to the public. Today we took another important step to transform this school into a beacon for education in Rio Grande do Sul by signing the decree that creates the Museum of Education for Tomorrow. MusEduca will be part of the Instituto de Educação complex, as a living, dynamic space connecting the history of education to the technological and social transformations that are shaping a very near future for all of us. In addition to all the investments we have made to restore school infrastructure and improve learning, with concrete results, we will create this space with interactive experiences that preserve memory, help reflect on the present, and envision the future of education in all its multiple possibilities.

I think the riskiest decision I made was the decision to end the vestibular.

We are going to reform the Enem and we are going to end the vestibular.

I don't regret making it, even knowing what happened, because freeing Brazilian students from the vestibular was something that had to be done.

When we talk about the IDEB, for example, we are talking about the state that collects the most revenue in Brazil and that should be the benchmark.

For Brazil in terms of education — not only primary but also secondary — it is not. We are, according to IDEB indices, around sixth or seventh among the states, losing out to very small states in the Brazilian Northeast.

74% of Brazilians do not have the mathematics level of high school students.

This is the case regarding education.