“Education: a path to love”: this is the topic of the International Symposium promoted for tomorrow November 9th in Paris by the Mission of Permanent Observation of the Holy See to Unesco, represented by mgr. Francesco Follo. Organised in cooperation with the Fordham University of New York-Faculty for Education and hosted by Unesco, the symposium, explain the promoters, follows "the guidelines suggested by Pope Benedict XVI in his encyclical "Deus caritas est", in the double aspect of the relationship between education and globalisation and the education of the person". "In front of globalisation go on the organisers of the meeting the education of the person must be a path in which faith and reason interact with each other". "Parents, teachers and educators” are called to “transmit to the young" an "integral" education that will also reflect "the cognitive, affective, corporeal, cultural and spiritual dimensions” of the person and combine "’being able to be’ with ‘being able to do'”. In particular, the school "must teach the common good” and “the religious dimension of culture". The workshop, during which Benedict XVI’s message will be read, will be attended also by the prefect of the Congregation for Catholic education, card. Zenon Grocholewski, and Boutros Ghali, ex UN secretary general. Info: op.saint-siege@unesco.org.
