Culture and education must go hand-in-hand to form students into agents of social change driven by hope, Pope Francis said.
“There is no need for educational models that are mere “achievement factories” without a cultural plan that enables the formation of people capable of helping the world turn over a new leaf by eradicating inequality, endemic poverty and exclusion,” he told participants in a plenary assembly of the Dicastery for Culture and Education.
The meeting 21 November marked the first plenary assembly of the dicastery since it was formed in 2022 by combining the Congregation for Catholic Education and the Pontifical Council for Culture.
The assembly focused on the theme, “Let Us Cross to the Other Shore.” Pope Francis explained that he joined the culture and education departments of the Holy See into one dicastery not for economic efficiency, but to inspire dialogue and innovation between the two branches of the church.
“The world does not need sleepwalking repeaters of the status quo,” he said, “but new choreographers, interpreters of the potential within humans, new social poets.”
Pope Francis said that schools, universities and cultural centres must teach people “to desire, to stay thirsty, to have dreams,” rather than to “passively accept” the current state of the world.
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