WEBINAR CTGP
– Philippines – 27th August 2022
Distinguished colleagues and friends, thank you for the invitation and
congratulations on your generous work to the university and the association.
The Catholic Teachers' Guild of the Philippines, through the generous
commitment of its leaders and members, has always been a great resource for
UMEC-WUCT.
I would like to thank, also on behalf of the Ecclesiastical Assistant,
Archbishop Dollmann, and President Bourdeaud'hui, especially the President,
Professor Belen Tangco, with whom I have had the good opportunity to collaborative
for many years.
In the face of a rapidly changing world that confronts us with new and
unpredictable situations: pandemics, wars, major migrations, new poverty, the
crisis of democracies and values, the crisis of families, etc., our school and
university institutions put much therefore in finding the most appropriate
contents and strategies to respond adequately to the many educational
challenges. In fact, new visions, new paths, and appropriate pathways are
needed, especially to help the most fragile and guarantee the full quality of
education for all. The world needs values and quality more than quantity.
Education cannot stop at the occasional and contingent but must have horizons
open to the future and transcendence.
The papal project of the Global Compact on Education gives us appropriate
indications to give vitality to the educational path, to create educational
alliances suitable to foster the integral education of each person,
Our young generation, right from early childhood, are placed in new
environments and among novel communication tools, which they must learn to
master to avoid being over-whelmed and suffocated by the enormous flow of
frequent communication hurricanes.
Communicating, as we well know, means entering relationships, knowing how
to listen, knowing how to reflect, knowing how to discern, knowing how to
dialogue. It is, therefore, appropriate to improve the quality of
communication, so that it might lead to good, every form of communication
brings out the good, beautiful and true outcomes.
For this to happen, it is necessary to review and improve the quality of
teacher training and stimulate the ways of educating.
The UMEC-WUCT can and must be a space for growth and the meeting place
where everyone’s ideas bear fruit.
Cordial greetings and best wishes to all.
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