(Ephesians 5:8)
Parents, leaders, and educators, we have a mission, a duty to lead children's souls toward the Light which will be their guide and their happiness. In order to illuminate the way that lies before each one of us, once a week we invite you to discover some of the words of certain wisemen and witnesses, measuring their worth by the words of St. Thomas Aquinas: “Do not consider the one who speaks, but whatever good you hear from him, confide it to your memory.” (from The Sixteen Ways to Acquire the Treasure of Knowledge by St. Thomas). Happy reading!
“To raise a child is to lift him up.”
Marcel Pagnol
Writer (1895 – 1974)
“Parents and teachers, you are educators. Now, I wonder if you have ever dreamed of this, that the job of an educator is a rather presumptuous one. To pretend to form the children of God! To continue the creation of God…that is indeed audacious!
With that in mind, having to pursue and to bring to completion the work of the Supreme Master, only one approach seems possible for us: to ask Him His secret. What do you want of this child, my God, of this particular child, and not another?
What will His response be? He gives every creature a particular character, a unique personality, eternally incommunicable. He will never produce another like it. This person is necessary to your work just as a little square of a mosaic is necessary to the harmony of the whole, no matter where its place is; and if it disappears or is altered, it leaves the mosaic incomplete or imperfect.
If God deigned to respond to this question, and if we could make that response enter into our limited vision, then we would be at a real starting point for the task of educating.”
Fr. Antoninus Sertillanges
Dominican (1863 – 1948)
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