Roots of Education - By P. Francis Xavier.ppt

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2. ROOTS: Seek –Sap –Support –Stability -Succeed

3. ROOTS AND
THEIR FUNCTIONS:
1.Tap root: First root –anchoring, stability and absorption -Founders
2.Lateral roots: Growing sideways –absorption of water and nutrients -Pioneers
3.Oblique/Heart roots: Growing diagonally –strengthening the tree –
Local Founders
1.Sinker roots: Growing downward from lateral roots –deeper in soil -Stabilizers
2.Fine roots: Branching from all the above roots –absorption capacity increased
-Sustainers(https://aplustree.com/3-types-of-tree-root-systems/)
Roots are essential:Bamboo -3 years to get started, Then, 30 to 120 cmsa day
Reason: roots to get steady and strong –roots: reasons for existence and growth

4. ORIGIN OF JESUIT ROOTS: SpEx(1522-1524)
IMPULSE:
Crucified Jesus
Triple Questions (SpEx 53)
Discernment
VENICE MODEL:
Review(inability to go to the Holy Land)
Reimagining(at the service of the Pope)
and
Collaboration(Lay-Brothers in 1546,
Partners in Mission)

5. EVOLUTION OF ‘CARE OF SOULS’:
Single Root: Care of Souls
Spiritual →Intellectual (Schools) →
Social →Political (Reductions) →
Economic (Option for the poor) →
Human rights (Refugees, Displaced) →
Care of Common Home (UAP/PAP) →
Integrated collaboration vs compartmentalization
(Similar to Big Bang vs Unifying force)

6. CHARACTERISTICS OF JESUIT EDUCATION:
Ratio studiorum: 1599

7. EDUCATION:
From one of the Ministries To Primary Ministry (1560: Polanco)
Fr Lainez: ‘All Jesuits would teach’
(https://brill.com/view/journals/jjs/3/1/article-p17_2.xml?language=en)
Education key to empowering -Now integrating ministry
* A Jesuit university must be outstanding in its human, social,
spiritual and moral formation, as well as for its pastoral attention
to its students and to the different groups of people who work in it
or are related to it(34 GC 414).

8. IGNATIAN PEDAGOGICAL PARADIGM

9. CONCEPT OF JESUIT EDUCATION:
Connectivity and integration
Kolvenbach address at BC 07Jun1986
Comprehensive: Formation of Mind and Heart and Hand
Balancing mind and heart and leading to action
World-affirming: Universal Outlook with Global Leadership
Social responsibility: Altruistic, Promotion of Justice
Multi-disciplinary and Value-based: Research
Integral formation: PQ + IQ + EQ + SQ + JQ + EcoQ

10. JESUIT MISSION: Integral Formation
‘TheJesuitsattempttodiscover,shape,reneworpromotehuman
wisdom,whileatthesametimerespectingtheintegrityofdisciplined
scholarship’(GC34404).Further,‘theSocietyofJesushascarriedaflame
fornearlyfivehundredyearsthroughinnumerablesocialandcultural
circumstancesthathavechallengeditintenselytokeepthatflamealive
andburning’(GC35D2/1).
Ignatius:Ite,inflammateomnia-AFirethatkindlesotherfires:Many
sparks,onefire–Manystories,onehistory(GC35D2).
(Education)‘shouldbestrengthenedtohelpinthetransformationof
culturesandsocieties’(GC36D1/34).
*Educationaskeytoempoweringandstrategytotransforming

11. JESUIT EDUCATION: Inter-disciplinary
Jesuituniversitieswillpromoteinterdisciplinarywork;thisimpliesaspiritof
cooperationanddialogueamongspecialistswithintheuniversityitselfand
withthoseofotheruniversities(GC34413).
Discipline:Theremustbeanofficialdisciplinarian,notaJesuit,whodeals
withthosewhoareneitherseriousinstudiesnorsatisfactoryinbehaviour,
andpaynoattentiontoadviceorurging….Onewhoisunprofitableto
himselfandharmfultootherscannotstaybutisbettersentaway(Const.
488).

12. THREE-LEGGED STOOL:
Review –Magis –Collaboration
Formation of Head –Heart –Hand
Wisdom and compassion (Solomon’s prayer)
Constant search for Magis +
Purpose and meaning
Mapping –Making –Meshing
Planning –Strategies –Networking
(Cf. T. Henry, Die Empty)

13. EDUCATION TODAY

14. Option:

15. OUR CONTEXT: Intertwined
Social Action and Institutions to be integrated
THREEphase formula:
I. Social action Feeling equal (Awareness)
Advocacy and lobby for the poor and the underserved
II. Education Living equal (Leadership)
Bottom-Up: Synodal-Collaboration
III. Professional Education Making equal through Social responsibility
(Transformation)
Individual and Collective: as unified force
Enlightenment –Empowerment –Engagement
Dr Ambedkar: Educate –Organize –Agitate (// Head –Heart -Hand)
Education for socialization and moralization of culture and civilization
(https://ijcrt.org/papers/IJCRT1801600.pdf)
JESUIT: Head –Heart –Hand
Institutions, as yeast, empower people –
Education gives the tools for self-confidence/ efficacy -EgThe Afro-Americans

16. TODAY’S REALITY: Challenge and Call
3Ps autocrats:
Populism –Polarization –Post-Truth
Post-Truth: Fake it till you make it
Political control of media
(Rf. N. Moses: The Revenge of Power)
Antidote: Individual and Institutional
ABCof Meaning: Agency –Belonging –Cause
(Rf. B. Feiler: Life is in Transitions)

17. ONGOING PROCESS :
Search for meaning
Why and how of life
Purpose and meaning of life
Meaning of our existence:
Explore –Engage –Empower
To build more humane and just world
Good to Great to enduring Greatness
(Cf. V. Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning; and J. Collins, Good to Great)

19. LEADERSHIP FORMATION : Teabag LeadershipTeam
Leadership:
Teabag
Leadership
–1. What counts is what’s inside the teabag
Not title but attitude
–2. Real flavor when teabag gets into hot water
Face challenges –Give yourself a chance
–3. Teabag must be porous
Immersion in mission –Allow new breeze come in
–4. Teabag works, never mind where it is in the cup
Not position in the team but teamwork at any level
–5. Sometimes one teabag is just not enough
Need for additional leadership –sharing responsibility

20. –6. Sometimes you need to add milk and sugar
Add knowledge and support from your side –
Allow support from others
–7. Someone else is holding the string always
Someone to mentor, direct, and lead you
(For religious: Provincial/Superior)
–8. It is always how good the tea is, not the teabag
Good works speak louder than your words
–9. Eventually teabag needs to make way and get out
No leader without a team –preparing second rank leaders
–10. A refreshing cup of tea needs time to brew
Forming leadership is not one day’s work
(Cf. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/leadership-lessons-learned-
from-tea-bag-rajeshkumar-pandiarajan)
Teabag
Leadership
(Ctd) LEADERSHIP FORMATION : Teabag Leadership

21. Roots and Tree
•Tree growing in two directions:
•↓Gravitropic –
pulled down by gravity; and
•↑Phototropic –
–pulled up by light stimulus
•Charism as roots (Gravitropic)
•Creativity as trees (Phototropic)
•Conviction to Contribution
•Formation to Transformation
•Strategy: Review and Reimagination

22. TAKE HOME POINTS:
For oneself:
Reading –Signs of times (Context)
Reflecting -Critically(Experience)
Revitalizing –Finding meaning (Confirmation)
For others:
Refracting –As per needs (like prism)
Reformation –Seeing everything new (Harmony)
Root of Life-Mission:
Consciousness of Here and Now
Intuition as Impulse and Examen as the Pointer

23. Than
ks
Always remember your
roots:
They are the foundation
of your life; and
The wings of your future.