"GLOBAL COMPACT ON EDUCATION. TOGETHER TO LOOK BEYOND"

Earlier this week, the Pope declared in a speech inaugurating "GLOBAL COMPACT ON EDUCATION." see full text here "We consider education to be one of the most effective ways of making our world and history more human. Education is above all a matter of love and responsibility handed down from one generation to another." Love and responsibility are the two critical messages that form the golden thread that weaves through the dynamic and ground-breaking curriculum A Fertile Heart

"As such," continues the Pope, "education is a natural antidote to the individualistic culture that at times degenerates into a true cult of the self and the primacy of indifference. Our future cannot be one of division, impoverishment of thought, imagination, attentiveness, dialogue and mutual understanding. That cannot be our future." I agree, it cannot, must not be our future - which is why I believe the material in "Fertile Heart - Giving and Receiving Creative Love" can provide educators both teachers and parents alike, alongside children a route map in exploring a better way to be and live