Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Educate with the heart of Don Bosco


Silethoa (morals or ethics).... this is what this class is all about. I don't really get it. We have a lot of classrooms with chairs and tables, whiteboards and projectors... and they (students and our technical director) prefer this class in the open air. It sets me thinking, this venue differs from their usual classroom or workshop environment. It's actually an environment where the buddhist monk sits in front of the people listening to him talk about how one could achieve enlightenment via the "moral" way.

In vocational-technical education - it's not only the head(conceptual), the hands(technical), and the feet(social) that must be trained, but more importantly - the heart(moral). Don Bosco's competitive advantage is not just the conceptual skills taught, the technical skills wrought, the sports and games fought, but more on the values caught.