Learning

Sometimes you say to yourself: "I am fed up with school! I spend my time inside this "box", without windows, without life, while the outside world is so beautiful! I want to take advantage of my youth and be free like a bird!"... That's normal; we all have those moments of discouragement. But you are not a bird, your life has a totally different dimension. And... what does "taking advantage" means?

Life is not easy, and to live it to the full it is important to learn, to possess a know-how. This is necessary not only for your own good, but also for the good of those around you. It is important that you learn to develop your potential and your creativity so that you may accomplish your life instead of living as a parasite, depending on others. You have already in you everything you need. But it is not enough to know that you were born with certain talents and capacities; your role is to learn to develop them and grow.

Now while you are very young, you are contented with few things to "live well". But later on, your needs and duties will be greater, and if you are not prepared to face them, they are going to become a problem. Because in order to harvest, you have to sow.

An education is going to give you the opportunity to discover and live the essential values of life that will allow you to consolidate yourself as a human being. Want it or not, "neutrality in our world is an illusion, and everything in life is a reflection of values".

What are values? It is what makes a person worthy of respect, the attitudes that we desire to see in a human being in the moral, intellectual and professional domains. It is "a pole of attraction capable of inciting the person and making it apt to choose what is worth seeking".

A value is expressed by a free choice that is traduced in acts and a lifestyle. A value leads to involvement; and education is there to offer those choices. "The school, after the family, is the place for this education" (Petit Robert and Prospective).

Of course, you can choose to evade it and try to pass your courses with the least possible effort, only to have something to write on your C.V. But if you do that, you will not have acquired any deep knowledge, and when the time to work will come, instead of confronting the situation with interest and full control, you will have to submit to it by necessity, in order to survive, and that will be very regrettable. Just because you didn't learn a trade...

The fictitious values of our consuming society may create the illusion that, the more you study, the more money, prestige and honour you will have. Evidently, thanks to your studies, your financial situation is going to improve, but the real end of your studies is more that just MONEY!

Don't let yourself be deceived by this false image of happiness. All your life depends on it, and you are made for so much more than that!