Lecture on Truth, Beauty and Goodness - Lasalle

Educational Challenges for the Global Village Br. Ar min A. Luistro FSC

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I. Roots of Lasallian Pedagogy

deeply moved by the condition of the children of the artisans and the poor

II. Current Global State of Education

Education for All (EFA) “to meet the learning needs of all children, youth and adults by 2015.”

1. Expanding and improving comprehensive early childhood care and education Not enough nourishment and remain stunted

No access to pre-primary education (2011)

25%

50%

2. Ensuring that all children have access to and are able to complete primary education Out-of-school youth (2011)

57M

3. Equitable access to appropriate learning and life skills programs

4. Achieving a 50% improvement in levels of adult literacy. Illiterate adults

774m

5. Eliminating gender disparities and achieving gender equality in education Primary Level

Secondary Level

60%

40%

6. Improving all aspects of the quality of education

Education for All (EFA) NOT a single ONE of the six EFA goals will be achieved by 2015

III. Addressing the need for Quality, Universal Education

Gary Becker Human Capital

“People cannot be separated from their knowledge, skills, health or values in the way they can be separated from their financial and physical assets.”

Personal Gain VS Common Good?

…ensure that our children receive an education that allows them to become good people who practice that great commandment of love.

‘educational emergency’ Pope Benedict XVI

Educators are called to urgently pass on to future generations the basic values of life and moral conduct.

Rudolf Steiner Lecture on Truth, Beauty and Goodness

The primary function of education is to exercise the students’ faculties of thinking, feeling, and willing.

Faculties of thinking, feeling, and willing Thinking

Feeling

Willing

Truth

Beauty

Goodness

Science

Art

Religion

Andrew DelBlanco The Humanities Crisis

in Europe & US: education narrowed down “to mean the acquisition of practical skills” in Asia: effort to include “the cultivation of feeling and imagination”

to become fully human

LIBERAL EDUCATION Truth Beauty Goodness

Thinking Feeling Willing

Science Art Religion

IV. Towards a truly Liberal Education

Alam Simpson The Marks of an Educated Man

Liberal education “distinguishes whatever nourishes the mind and spirit from the training, which is merely practical, or professional or from the trivialities which are no training at all. Such an education involves a combination of knowledge, skills and standards.”

Truth

Beauty

Goodness

Science

Art

Religion

Indigenous Peoples Education (IPEd) Program in the Philippines

“Our first task…is to take off our shoes, for the place we are approaching is holy.” MAX WARREN

“a society respectful of human life in all its expressions.” INDIGENOUS PEOPLES EDUCATION IN THE PHILIPPINE LANDSCAPE

V. Education for Transformation

Joseph Aoun Expand Students’ Global Experience

“Our colleges and universities must work to ensure that all students become inquisitive, lifelong learners with a global perspective.”

Kahlil Gibran

“A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.”

VI. Opportunities for Collaboration and Innovation

MOOC’s (Massive Open Online Courses) such as Coursera.

The Department of Education Philippines’ online resource platform, LRMDS.

The Department of Education Philippines’ Twitter page.

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How can the network of educators gathered here today ACT on the global problem of 57 million children who are out of school?

SOURCE: Twitter. Tweet by Pope Francis (@Pontifex) on March 1, 2014.

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