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When Prime Minister Rutte stops being prime minister, he wants to start teaching full-time. He said it today The Hague FM. Although she is not yet considering quitting, she sees herself teaching full-time.
Since Rutte became prime minister in 2010, he has taught weekly as a guest lecturer at a secondary school in The Hague. Before that he already had several years of experience as a teacher. “Now I teach for a few hours at the Johan de Witt Scholengroep. I really like it.”
He also explains why: «In life you have to do things that you don’t think about in the evening: did it help? In politics there are times when you sometimes think in the evening: did all this help? But a master must never ask himself this question”.
Its weekly lessons lead according to the prime minister normal or funny situationshe said before Transmission in the West. “If I have to go to the European Council after teaching, we will go to Brussels in a group of cars, which will be waiting in front of the school.”
To become a teacher, he still has to take a course, says Prime Minister Rutte:
The premier does not yet have what it takes to teach full-time. He’s already been well informed, he says. “I have to take a course, because I don’t have a note for it.” There is also a whole process that precedes a lateral entrant. “You have to take a whole course in Iclon, I already understood everything.”
Incidentally, it is not the case that he is thinking of quitting after twelve years as prime minister. “I really like this better. So I really want to do it for another thirty years.”
Alderman is also an option, Brussels is not
Rutte also likes local politics, but not as mayor of The Hague. “It’s a wonderful job, but I’m not cut out for it,” he says. “Then I wish it were better to be a city councilor for once. Then you’re really busy with a portfolio of interesting things.” His preference is therefore for a portfolio in Social Affairs or Education.
He doesn’t aspire to a subsequent move to Brussels, especially since he would then have to skip The Hague. “I planned to go there on Monday morning and come back on Friday night,” says Rutte. “But that’s not going to work, of course, because there are all sorts of things with NATO or the European Commission at the weekend.”
Furthermore, he likes the fact that, as Prime Minister, he claims that he “is authorized to interfere in everything”. “If you’re there, your work shrinks. And you’re in Brussels. Nice city, but not The Hague.”
