2024 EXHIBIT
‘If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.’ The Pedagogy of Fr. Luigi Giussani
Click below to read the transcript of the exhibit presentation by Carmine di Martino, professor of philosophy at State University of Milan.
At a surface level, everyone agrees we are in the midst of an educational crisis. National assessments highlight deficiencies in communicating content like history or skills like reading, but what if the root of the issue is much deeper?
We have lost knowledge of the meaning of things and are settling instead for practical skills training and academic performance. The absence of a proposal of meaning leaves young people increasingly disillusioned and disengaged, as they are taught to critique but not to build. Subjects are fragmented from each other, frustrating students’ desire for unity.
In contrast, Fr. Luigi Giussani’s educational proposal seeks to introduce the young person to reality as a whole, including its meaning. He rediscovers the value of tradition in offering a proposal of meaning. And he recovers the value of the teacher as an authority in a world that increasingly distrusts authority from the get-go.
Young people are in search of meaning and fulfillment and are searching for educators and teachers to accompany them and offer them a hypothesis for discovering the meaning of themselves and everything they encounter. What does this look like?
Exhibit presentation
WITH AMY HICKL, Curator, and Carmine Di Martino, professor of philosophy, State University of Milan
Sat, Feb 17, 2024
3:15 PM ET | ALTMAN AUDITORIUM
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