I have been thinking over the last few days about my goals for the boys' education overall.
What is the most important thing for them to take away from the years of schooling?
Of course, the most mportant thing is their knowlege of God and His relationship to them and the rest of the world.
I have just been thinking a lot about what makes us who we are and how we express that to ourselves and to others.
I think one of the most important things that we need to learn, if not the most important, is to know ourselves and then to be able to express that knowlege.
Reading Dante has really helped me see how important it is to have confidence in our ability to express the lights that we are given. What if that brilliant mind had been chained by the limits of illiteracy or discouragement?
To be able to take a thought, a light, a meditation, and then find the perfect way to express it so that it can be shared with others.
We are all created in the same Image. God made every person in HIS image.
We are not all the same, but we all share a common beginning.
I want to boys to know that they are created in the same image as Plato, Aristotle,
Yeats, Shelley, St Thomas More.
All the great thinkers were made in the Image of the God that now resides in their own souls.
The Holy Spirit is the same Spirit that inspired St Paul, St Thomas Aquinas, and our dear Holy Father John Paul II.
It is SO important that they have the tools and opportunity to give the world whatever He wants to bring to it through them. I can help them find the tools, I can teach them sentence structure, vocabulary and writing skills. The inclination and interest of course, will have to come from them. I just wonder how much of the imagination, creativity and originality of thought we lose if we don't have a fertile environment as children?
What will the world lose if we don't foster the joy of expressing of what God has planted in their hearts?
Kind of scary...
