The Pope convenes a global pact for education

Vatican City (AICA): In a video message, Pope Francis invited young people and public figures to the Vatican to promote a global pact for education. The meeting will be held on May 14, 2020 and will focus on: Rebuilding the Global Compact for Education. Today more than ever, it is necessary to unite to form a vast educational alliance in order to rebuild the relational fabric of a more fraternal humanity, said the pontiff.

In a video message, Pope Francis invited young people and public figures to the Vatican to promote a global pact for education. The meeting will be held on May 14, 2020 and will focus on: Rebuilding the Global Compact for Education.

I wish to promote a meeting to relaunch the commitment for and with the younger generations, renewing the pbadion for a more open and inclusive education, capable of patient listening, constructive dialogue and mutual understanding. , said in his video message that it was a meeting. revive commitment for and with young people

Today more than ever, it is necessary to combine efforts to create a broad alliance in the field of education in order to train mature people, able to overcome fragmentation and opposition and to rebuild the relational fabric of education. 'a more fraternal humanity,' explains the pope.

The Holy Father urges us to seek solutions together, to start processes of transformation without fear and to look to the future with hope. I invite everyone to be the protagonist of this covenant, baduming a personal and community commitment to cultivate together the dream of a united humanism, which meets the hopes of man and the purpose of God.

As explained, each change requires an educational journey involving everyone. This requires the construction of an education village where diversity is shared in the commitment to generate a network of open and human relationships. We must build this village as a prerequisite for education. The land must be free of all discrimination with the introduction of the fraternity.

An alliance with the common house

And he continues: In such a village, it is easier to find a global convergence for an education that combines all the components of the person: between study and life; between generations; among teachers, students, families and civil society with intellectual, scientific, artistic, sports, political, economic and solidarity expressions. An alliance between the inhabitants of the Earth and the Common House, to which we owe care and respect. An alliance that brings peace, justice and welcome to all the peoples of the human family, as well as dialogue between religions.

To achieve these global goals, the common path of the education village must lead to important milestones. First, have the courage to put the person in the center. For this, it is necessary to sign a pact that encourages formal and informal educational processes, which can not ignore that everything in the world is intimately linked and that we have to find other ways to understand it. economy, politics and the need to find a healthy anthropologist. growth and progress, indic.

Second, have the courage to invest the best energies with creativity and responsibility. And it is that deliberate and confident action opens up education for long-term planning that is not limited to the aesthetics of conditions. Thus, we will have people open, responsible, available to find the time to listen, to dialogue and to think, and able to build a web of relationships with families, between generations and with the various expressions of civil society, so that a new humanism is composed, remember.

Finally, have the courage to train people available to serve the community. From this perspective, all institutions must be questioned about the purpose and methods with which they develop their own formative mission.

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