PROCLAMATION FOR EDUCATION IN CATALAN

Català English

We are aware that the situation is critical but also that the recovery of the Catalan language is possible and that it is essential for proper measures to be taken immediately. The time is ripe for such measures with the "Pact for Progress" in power, as the groups that make up the present government have all declared the need to restore Catalan to normal use.

It is essential to normalise education in the Balearic Islands with a view to the near and distant future; and normality as demanded by civil society has always been for education entirely in Catalan. It is clear from the education system in Catalonia that it is legally and actually possible to offer this type of education (which is a fundamental -if insufficient- requirement for the integration of non-Catalan speakers and for the non-disintegration of the Catalan-speaking community).

We appeal to the will of all individuals and groups to DEMAND AN ACT OF PARLIAMENT WHICH WILL ENSURE THAT EDUCATION AT ALL LEVELS, IN ALL CENTRES IN THE BALEARIC ISLANDS, IS ENTIRELY IN CATALAN AND TAKES INTO ACCOUNT THE CULTURAL, GEOGRAPHICAL, HISTORICAL, LITERARY, ETC REALITY OF ALL CATALAN-SPEAKING TERRITORIES. Such an Act should come into effect gradually, in order to avoid traumas, but without delay.

JOSEP MASSOT I MUNTANER
(Director of Publications by the Abbey of Montserrat)
MIQUEL SERRA MAGRANER
(Editor of the Diari de Balears)
LLUÍS AROLA FERRER
(Vice-chancellor of Rovira i Virgili University)
GABRIEL OLIVER, BIEL MAJORAL
(Professor of Balearic Islands University)
NEUS SANTANER PONS
(STEI-i)