Archbishop Silvano M. Tomasi at the 48th International Conference on Education of
the UNESCO
(November 29, 2008) The educational community is called to promote a school that is a place of integral formation through inter-personal relations based on mutual respect and acceptance. The educators should remain aware that they carry out their service in cooperation with parents, who are the first ‘educational agency’ and have the priority right and duty to educate their children, said Archbishop Silvanus Tomassi, Apostolic Nuncio, and Permanent Representative of the Holy See to the United Nations at Geneva. He was speaking at the 48th International Conference on Education of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, on the 26th of November. He said that the Holy See fully subscribes to the theme of this 48th International Conference on Education that a way to a future of peaceful coexistence, of mutual respect and enrichment by sharing the gifts of different cultures and traditions, comes through ‘education of all’. Such an education takes into account the needs of every person and in particular the needs of the poor and most vulnerable, of people with disabilities, of rural and of city slums youth, of young people and adults without any discrimination. Referring to the Human Rights he added that everyone has the right to education and that Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children.” He insisted that all Nations of the world and their specialized agencies must engage in “the integral development of the human being, economic and social progress and development of all peoples” quoting Pope Benedict XVI, the Pope added that “Every true teacher knows that if he is to educate he must give a part of himself, and that it is only in this way that he can help his pupils overcome selfishness and become in their turn capable of authentic love.” The prelate then concluded saying that education provides everyone with the tools to contribute a creative participation in community, to reflect and give an appropriate answer to the unavoidable profound questions of meaning, to live with others, to discover one’s nature and inherent dignity as spiritual creatures
Archbishop Silvano M. Tomasi at the 48th International Conference on Education of the UNESCO
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