True education should be a lesson to criticism. Up to ten years (Now maybe even earlier), the child may repeat again, "said the mistress, the mother said." Why? Because, by nature, who loves the child puts in his bag on his back, what better life he lived, what they chose a better life. But at some point, nature gives the child, who was a child, the instinct to take the sack to put it before the eyes (in greek we say pro-ball, hence the Italian "problem") . Must therefore become a problem that we have spoken! If you do not become the problem, will never mature and leave it irrationally or unreasonably held. Carried the bag before our eyes, we rummaged inside. Also in greek, this "rummage inside" says krinein, krisis, from which "critical". The criticism, therefore, is to give an account of things, not necessarily a negative sense. So the young man rummages in the bag with this criticism and compares what he sees in it, that is what he put on his back to the tradition, with the desires of his heart: the ultimate criterion of opinion, when it is in us, otherwise we alienated. And the ultimate criterion, which is in each one of us is the same: You need a true, beautiful, good. Within or across all conceivable differences with which the imagination can play on these requirements, they are basically identical in the move, even if different connotations for different circumstances experience. Our insistence on education is critical: our children receive from the past through this experience he encounters, which suggests that past and gives him the reasons, but he must get past this and these reasons, putting it before our eyes, to compare with your heart and say, "is true ',' not true ',' doubt '. And so, with the help of a company (this company no man is too much at the mercy of the storms of her heart, not good and instinctive sense of the term) can say 'Yes' or 'No'. In so doing, takes his appearance of a man. We have been too afraid of this criticism, really. Or those who have not been afraid, he applied without knowing what it was, has not applied well. The criticism has been reduced to negativity, for that reason that a problem is one thing that was said. I'll tell you one thing: put a question mark on this thing, ask: "is it true?" Has become equal to doubt it. The identity between the problem and doubt is the disaster of the consciousness of youth. Doubt is the completion of an investigation (temporary or not, I do not know), but the problem is the call to understand what I have before, to discover a new good, a new truth, that is satisfaction in getting a more charged and more mature. Without one of these factors: tradition, lived in this offering and gives the reasons, critics - like to thank my father used to ask me the reasons for each what, when, every night before going to sleep, I kept saying: 'You gotta ask why. Ask yourself why "(he said for many other reasons!) - The frail young leaf is far from your branch (" Where you go? "Said Leopardi), a victim of the prevailing wind, its changeability, the victim of a ' general public opinion created by the real power. We want - and this is our purpose - to liberate the young: to free young people from mental slavery, from enslaving mentally approval of others.
"The Risk of Education" - Monsignor Luigi Giussani
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