COMMUNIO International Catholic Review

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Educating the Human Person: A Theological Presupposition

“Education is the continuation in time of the mystery of our own birth. This means that we have been given the task of brining finite being to completion—ours included—through our knowing it, loving it, and unfolding the design and project it contains.”

1. APPROACHING EDUCATION


In his message for the forty-fifth celebration of the World Day of Peace in 2012, Benedict XVI wrote: “Education is the most interesting and difficult adventure in life. Educating—from the Latin educere—means leading young people to move beyond themselves and introducing them to reality, toward a fullness that leads to growth.” Almost a century earlier, Joseph A. Jungmann

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