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The corner stone of education

As Christian educators, I am thinking in particular of schools of Catholic inspiration and teachers of religion, we would do well to ask ourselves what is our "teaching profile", that is, to think about what kind of people we have before us, and therefore what kind of society we would like our society to be like.

Javier Segura-April 9, 2022-Reading time: 2 minutes
education

Testo originale in inglese

There is an expression in the new educational law that, being evangelical, has attracted my attention. The Ministry of Public Education of Pilar Alegria underlines that the teaching profile mentioned above "is the corner stone of the curricular building, the matrix that unites the different layers, and in which they all converge".

Per profilo di uscita si intende il modello di persona che si vorrebbe ottenere con l'applicazione del LOMLOE (Lomloe - Ley Orgánica de Modificación de la Loe).

The entire educational system is moving towards this objective. The students' educational profile defines the type of person that, as a social group, we want to contribute to develop through education and, through this, the type of society we aspire to build.

As Christian educators, I am thinking in particular of schools of Catholic inspiration and teachers of religion, we would do well to ask ourselves what is our "teaching philosophy", that is, what model of person we have in mind and, therefore, what we want our society to be like. Therefore, we must ask ourselves to what extent our project coincides with that proposed by this or other laws on education.

Forse dovremmo dovremmo cominciare dall'inizio. Our cornerstone in education is none other than Jesus Christ himself. The goal of any Christian formation is to be conformed to Christ. The model we have of humanity is that incarnated in Jesus of Nazareth, not ideally but in a living and pulsating way. Indeed, we are called to have the heart, the heart, the mind of Jesus Christ. This is our ultimate formative reference.

It is true that the school has its own dynamics, and that our Catholic proposal can coincide with many of the objectives indicated in the educational profile of the school, and can even reinforce some of them with greater depth.

Therefore we must be conscientious and honest with ourselves in order to be able to offer our project, our profile of use, without having to worry about certain aspects in which we do not agree with what is 'politically correct'.

We must be able to provide our vision on some issues in which apparently we talk about the same thing, but only apparently. Because, for example, it is not the same to talk about taking care of our common home in the perspective that the world is God's creation and man is its 'capolavoro', proposing instead a pantheistic scheme of mother earth (Gaia, from the Greek Γηα) and presenting man as the enemy, a kind of virus that must be controlled with neo-malthusian policies that reduce the population. It is not the same.

And it is not only about points of view on the same argument. Sometimes it is not a problem related to what is said, but to what is not said. There are vital prospects that will never appear in the application profile of any law on education, but which for us are essential.

We Christians cannot forget that we are citizens of heaven, that the earth is our common home, but that it expands and becomes infinite in the bosom of the Father. That Jesus, dead and risen, is alive today and is the one who sustains our life.

Our corner stone is Christ. Without him, the whole building collapses. Without that key it is impossible to educate in a Christian way. By making it clear, and knowing who we are and what our proposal is, we can bring the light that comes from the Vangelo and that has illuminated all centuries and all nations. Even in the twentieth century.

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