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Teaching
Because of this, merely imparting information is insufficient; we must ensure that students see the significance of what we are teaching and make it their own. This is a tricky business, a hard and delicate business; yet
Any school which neglects this duty and which offers merely pre-cast conclusions hinders the personal development of its pupils.
This is connected to the document’s notion of education:
It must never be forgotten that the purpose of instruction at school is education, that is, the development of man from within, freeing him from that conditioning which would prevent him from becoming a fully integrated human being.
“Development from within” and avoiding “pre-cast conclusions” means that as educators we aren’t simply telling students that something is so; we are stimulating their minds to use their own judgement and reflect upon their own experience to see that it is so. Lively, questioning, enthusiastic minds working within the context of a strong school will be best positioned to apply lessons of school in the context of their adult life.
This is simply another way of saying that the school is an institution where young people gradually learn to open themselves up to life as it is, and to create in themselves a definite attitude to life as it should be. [The Catholic School n.31]
