16. Insists on the importance of children's developing basic skills, learning their mother tongue or the language of their country of residence, and acquiring reading and writing skills as early as possible;

The teacher is simply someone more qualified than the learner, e.g. a babysitter helping a child learn to read.

This includes an emphasis on reading instruction, on innovation in teaching and learning, on the quality of school life, as well as school location, size and openness to the world outside school, on cooperation with parents and with a wide range of stakeholders.

Delicate and rough movements, which can be well developed through sport and popular games or any activity involving movement, are also essential in the study of reading and writing.

In my amendments, I emphasised certain points that I feel are vital when it comes to the position of Roma women in particular: the need for Roma children to learn to read and write, and also the importance of social mixing with regard to housing and the need to provide accommodation sites for travelling Roma.

1) As a basis for long-term employability and further learning, all citizens should be able to have free access to the acquisition of key skills, including literacy and numeracy but also other key skills, such as maths, science and technology, foreign languages, "learning to learn" skills (i.e. the ability and the desire to continuously acquire and update knowledge and competences), cultural awareness, social/personal skills, entrepreneurship, and technological culture (including ICT skills, to be validated, for example, through tools such as the European Computer Driving Licence, and the use of ICT and e-learning to assist a wider range ...[+++] of learning).