\u201cThe problem of life is not success, but love,\u201d said Emilia Guarnieri, President of the Foundation Meeting For Friendship amongst People, mentioning Juli\u00e0n Carr\u00f2n speaking at the pilgrimage in Czestochowa this year, during the conference \u201cTestimonies from the edges: education, an introduction to reality\u201d, that took place in room D5 at 11:15 a.m.
\n\u201cMan\u2019s heart must be conquered again,\u201d continued Guarnieri, \u201ctherefore the duty of the educator is to help youth in finding themselves. The educational challenge is urgent: only the heart has the power to change and make history.\u201d In answer, the speaker Alberto Bonfanti, teacher of History and Philosophy and President of Portofranco, underlined the importance of having educators which care about youth seriously. The modern world seems to be worried only about increasing fun, \u201cforgetting that their heart wants more than that: it has thirst after justice, truth and beauty.\u201d However, how can we teach students to not fear truth? How can we educate them towards freedom? \u201cThere is only a way: to introduce them to reality,\u201d concluded Bonfanti.
\nStarting from this evidence, Jos\u00e9 Medina, professor in the USA, said: \u201cThe inability of facing the circumstances comes from the lack of hope; when people don\u2019t look at something \u201cmore\u201d, problems of life seem like heavy difficulties. Education means to help the student to enter reality.\u201d
\nFrom here comes the need of adults that look at youth with a new gaze, a gaze full of love and of tenderness, a gaze which comes from seeing others like people with our same needs. For that reason, the human intellectual development can\u2019t be divided from the emotional experience,\u201d Bonfanti said, \u201conly the attraction of a close person can suggest that reality is positive, that knowledge is an event. Man becomes himself by knowing and discovering reality.\u201d The adult has to testify with his or her own life that there is always hope and purpose to a simple lifestyle, which is more suitable and corresponding to human spirit, which is not satisfied by small pleasures.
\n\u201cEducating is always done together,\u201d emphasized the President, \u201cand Portofranco\u2019s volunteers try to give youth the passion for what they are studying. It is passion, in fact, that connects studying and reality. An educator who is open to the world, infects students with his or her enthusiasm.\u201d The youth appreciate the gratuitousness of volunteers, who make themselves available to donate their time simply out of love. \u201cLoving without limits,\u201d concluded Medina, \u201cmeans loving the mystery which surrounds the other. This is possible only by recognizing the tenderness, the affection, the mercy that God has for us. Seeing the other as a gift leaves us full of freedom and gratitude in front of each circumstance. In fact, educators grow together with their youth.\u201d
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\u201cThe problem of life is not success, but love,\u201d said Emilia Guarnieri, President of the Foundation Meeting For Friendship amongst People, mentioning Juli\u00e0n Carr\u00f2n speaking at the pilgrimage in Czestochowa … <\/p>\n