President Danilo Medina was yesterday at the Loyola Polytechnic Institute, the nation’s most important vocational training school. He toured the school together with Rector Jose Nunez and promised funds to modernize and add 30 classrooms to the highly reputed institution. Medina spoke to more than 1,500 students and said that his government is on a crusade for quality education and he would give the Polytechnic all it needed to ensure it could deliver just that.
“We are going to try to bring public education up to the level of private education and maybe even better”, he said speaking to the students. He stressed the new programs to extend school hours.
In his speech, the President encouraged the students to persevere in their studies. He said he is President today because he had studied and the only way to develop the country was by educating its citizens. “Anyone of you could be the next President of the country,” he told the students.
He motivated students who knew adults who had not learned to read and write to enroll them in the new government literacy program.