Campus Notes

A new book entitled Pope Benedict XVI and the Urgent Task of Education says the Pope believes there’s an emergency in education.

Author Paolo Dal Toso, who  compiled statements and various addresses of the present Pontiff on the subject of education, told Zenit he wrote the book after realizing “the importance and frequency of the Pope’s appeals on education.”

“I think the Pope is conscious of the difficulties of educating at present, but he invites us also to be courageous, and to assume the responsibility of education, to address and accept this challenge of the educational emergency and this need.”

Dal Toso said the Pope “highlights education as an instrument to accompany the discovery of what can be an answer to the question of truth.”

Dal Toso also said the Pope is challenging not just young people to continue becoming educated. He said:

In the Pope’s writings the exhortation is clear to education directed not only to children, as we understand it traditionally, but also to adolescents, young people and adults. It’s very clear: the Pope poses the problem of the education of adults, an education that must continue throughout the whole of life.