This document discusses the role of teachers and education. It states that teaching is a vocation and calling, and explores what makes a good teacher. It describes how children progress from home to school to college, being tutored by teachers along the way. The goal of school is to form students' intellect and will through contemplating reality, with the curriculum focusing on knowledge, skills, and enabling subjects.
16. The
SCHOOL
a Place for LEISURE
- and LEISURE is the place
for CONTEMPLATION
17. The CHILD is brought into
the FAMILY
In the HOME
18. The CHILD is brought into
By his/her PARENTS
FATHER and MOTHER
MAN and WOMAN
LORD and LADY
who entered into CONJUGAL union,
as BRIDE and BRIDEGROOM
19. If Catholic, received the
sacrament of MATRIMONY
At certain age, the CHILD
enters the SCHOOL
20. to become a
PUPIL
and then a
STUDENT
Under the tutelage of
TEACHERS
21. He/she then enters
COLLEGE
and exercise a
PROFESSION
Which he/she tries to SANCTIFY for
the rest of his/her life
22. At home, we teach
REALITY to children in
profoundly personal,
informal and
unstructured way.
23. In school, we teach
REALITY in a
professional, formal and
structured way.
24. Hence, there is a set curriculum, consisting in:
KNOWLEDGE (those that are primarily
subject intended to learn reality)
(those that work on the SKILLS
acquisition of learning subject
tools)
(those that make our body
ENABLING
and spirit more sensitive
subject to learning)
25. The major GOAL of the
SCHOOL is the formation of
the INTELLECT and the WILL
of the STUDENT toward what
is true and what is good,
through the contemplation of
reality.