Škola za život Karola Wojtyle. U prigodi 100. rođendana Apostola stoljeća

Abstract

Analysing the key stages of Karol Wojtyla’s upbringing and education, the authors have reached the inalienable values which uphold the quality school for life. Since God is the source of life, any further education, which aims to affirm humanity and personality, should mediate the search for God as a thread that runs through all phases of the educational process, from the primary family, through parish-pastoral, to university education. The school for life primarily implies the acceptance and bestowal of life in the family, which Wojtyla calls the domestic seminary. The categories of truth and love on the one hand and selfless self-giving and solidarity on the other represent the framework that educated Wojtyla for life, from the family community of Emilia and Carol in Wadowice, Poland, through Salesian and lay engagements in Dębniki parish, to the Sapieha's seminary and later university immersion in the works of great theologians and philosophers. It is necessary, therefore, that each of these stages is a guide to the identity and Truth of humanity contained in Jesus Christ. Therefore, the whole school for life is in fact »learning Christ.« Only then will man become a witness to the same, and that means ready for life.

Keywords

• school for life
• karol wojtyla
• education
• family
• spirituality
• intellectual development