What is Agustine education

Augustine had a unique and powerful goal of education.

He equated education with happiness. "What if even the
ignorant can lead a happy life? That's hardly possible.
If it were so, ignorance would have no importance,
instead of being the only true unhappiness"
(Leinenweber, 1992, p. 18). Also, he stated, "the soul
grows by learning" (Colleran, 1964, p.53

Augustinian was a strong advocate that the written and

spoken word were powerful skills worth learning. He
enjoyed "playful debates" with students and friends.
"This kind of intellectual gamesmanship is said to have
been very popular among African Christians"
(Leinenweber, 1992, p. 11). However, he strongly
critiqued other learned writers or speakers.
In your own words and understanding, retell the humble life, as well as basis for professional
beginning of CSR SCC San Carlos City, Negros Occidental
Colegio De Sta. Rita de San Carlos Inc. success. Real education is characterized
by a search for knowledge and
Based on your understanding explain the understanding, which is integrated with
aim of Augustinian Education. personal experience.

St. Augustine speaks about the “teacher

An Agustinian approach to education seeks within who can test the truth of what is
to create a community context in which being taught. This teacher is the presence
learning can occur. This close community of God within each of us. Process of
encompasses students, staff and parents. interior reflection and evaluation ensure
our inner teacher is forever present.
The work of the College relies upon rich
partnerships between students and teachers
, teachers and parents.These beliefs and
practices also extend to other members of
the community including past students and
parents.

Education in the Agustinian Tradition is

concerned with building a firm foundation
of knowledge for personal and spiritual
 Mr. Catalino Broce of Barrio Nabingkalan, a
philanthropist donated a portion of his family land for a
Catholic Church and a portion of approximately eight
thousand (8,000) sq. meters for a Catholic Institution. He
requested the Augustinian Recollect Fathers (OAR) to put
In your own words and understanding, retell the humble up the edifice of the Catholic Church.
beginning of CSR SCC San Carlos City, Negros Occidental On May 3, 1933, the Augustinian Recollect Missionary Sisters of
Colegio De Sta. Rita de San Carlos Inc. the Philippines (former name of the Congregation of the
Augustinian Recollect Sisters) headed by the Rev. Mother
Presentacion de San Jose sent three Sisters to San Carlos City
to put up and manage the school for girls.Their Catholic
teachings attracted not only the residents of San Carlos City but
also the neighboring towns of Calatrava and Vallehermoso.
Primary and Intermediate classes were opened. Due to the
increase of enrolment another building was constructed.
Then in the late 60’s a 3 – storey concrete main building, was
erected.

The next decade, the 80’s The school converted a portion of the

third floor of the main building into an air-conditioned room and
equipped with 3 units of IBM computers with printer. Computer
as a subject was added to BEED, BSED, BSC, and BSSAD. The
AB curriculum was also revised to include Computer as a
subject.
The 90’s began with improvements both in facilities and
academic offerings. The library acquired more books; the
Science Laboratory and the H.E. rooms underwent renovation;
an Audio – Visual Room was opened; a Speech Laboratory was
installed; CAT and CMT Offices were built and the Canteen was
given a “facelift”.

With the trends of seamless education across the globe and

advancement in educational technology, internet connection
within the campus is upgraded and made accessible. Teaching
and learning experiences have shifted to online and blended
modalities ensuring a transformative quality education for all.

Today, we are proud of COLEGIO DE SANTA RITA DE SAN

CARLOS, INC., rich in history, fortified decade after decade by
its honorable forbearers. Her portals have been the origin of
dignified educators, businessmen, government leaders, family
men and women of San Carlos City and other parts of the
country and abroad.
According to St. Augustine , What is education? Explain his his time. In the face of the Roman consciousness of power and
definition of education. rigid class divisions (and the use of slaves), Augustine put
forward an ideal that is communitarian and respectful of every
person.
St. Augustine believes in sheer hard thinking in young people. For contemporary education to be faithful to Augustine, it
Students should learn to value their own intellectual powers. must resist social division and excessive economic differences
"It is easy to be ignorant," he says, "learning always requires among members of the human family. Its social emphasis must
effort." School instruction alone is insufficient, for that merely be the liberation of all in human society from any lack of
gives knowledge from the outside of things. Students need to be justice that they face. Augustine believed the human
critical thinkers, and to question everything with a serious community has a unity, a unity in Christ. He could see Christ
purpose; they should in fact become their own teachers. as present and suffering in any suffering member of humanity.
Augustine says, "Reach to truth yourself." In summary, the relevant educational ideas of Augustine focus
on: the power of the human mind, the search for God,
Also for St. Augustine, education is a quest for divine truth and education of the heart, love of teacher for pupil, knowing by
a happiness that endures beyond space and time. Hence study loving (and therefore community), all persons sharing the same
must be directed to that inner understanding and confidence individual and social dignity. These beliefs constitute the ideals
which come when faith is stirred. He says, "Search for God in a and challenges of Augustinian education. Augustine knew well
way you will be certain to find Him; you will find peace." Love what oppresses in life, and what liberates.
belongs in the relationship of teacher and pupil. Love is
necessary to awaken love; it educates the heart. Love seals the
work of the teacher.

Finally, Augustine sees no value in social or racial divisions

among people. Instead, he is deeply conscious of the unity of
the human race. Everyone, he believes, is called to the one
dignity, the one destiny, the one Communion of peace. In
revolutionary language he cut across the social framework of
 There is no substitute for knowing the truth that Christ told us to
believe. But knowing this truth by faith is not enough. We must put it
into practice authenticity in the Catholic religion is not only a matter
of faith. It is also and especially living what we believe. From the
dawn of Christianity the followers of Christ found that their
How can you identify an individual who is an authentic contemporaries did not like the moral practice of believing Christians.
Catholic Christian? I will never forget the inscription etched on stone in Pompeii.
Remember Pompeii was destroyed by volcanic eruption in the year 70
An authentic Catholic Christian should know the truth, to know the A.D. The inscription reads, Christiani delendi Sunt (Christians must
truth is to believe what the incarnate God told us about ourselves and be exterminated). For 300 years, the pagan world of the Roman
our purpose for existence. Christ could not have been clearer. We are Empire did everything in its power to destroy Christianity. This has
human beings who live here on earth for a short time in order to been the history of the Catholic Church ever since.
prepare ourselves for a heavenly eternity. Nothing in this world has
any value except as a means of leading us to our heavenly destiny. I wish to be very clear. To live up to Christ’s moral demands is not
We are to use our free wills to choose what Christ told us we must do easy on selfish sexually preoccupied human nature. But that is not all
and avoid, at any cost, what he forbade. to live up to the moral precepts of the Savior is to irritate, antagonize,
and arouse the opposition of one’s contemporaries.
It is one thing, however, for Christ to have revealed the moral truths
of Christianity. It is something else for us to know them. To know this To be an authentic Catholic means to pay dearly for one’s loyalty to
truth we must submit our minds to the divine mind of the Son of God Jesus Christ. It is impossible to exaggerate; shall I use the word
who became the Son of Mary. This is not as easy as it may seem. We “expensive”? It is not just to call oneself a Catholic or be considered a
must choose to tell our minds to believe. It is easy enough to believe Catholic but to be a Catholic.
what is easy or pleasant or satisfying to our natural inclinations. It is
hard when we are told to believe what is demanding on our human As we said in the beginning of this conference, we are now living in a
nature. world that has literally destroyed each person. Anyone’s free will is
now considered the norm of morality.

Authentic Christian also should live the Truth Those who challenge this new paganism are faced with a difficult
option. Rather they conform to this philosophy and they are faced
with the prospect of martyrdom.
To the best of my knowledge, never in the history of the Church, has Develop skills conducive to teaching an integrated 
any Pope spoken and written more clearly about the need for program where there are strong 
martyrdom than has Pope John Paul II. The reason is obvious. He has connections between religious learning and the lif
no illusions of what it means to be an authentic Catholic on the eve of e of the learner  
the third millennium. He quotes from Sacred Scripture to show that Demonstrate teaching strategies where students use 
Jesus Christ was the primary witness for looking for the truth. Christ technology in a moral and  ethical way  
was followed by Steven and the apostle’s children and by now twenty Use and integrate the Catholic faith tradition in 
centuries of men, women, and even children who laid down their lives the critical analysis of the arts, 
rather than deny or compromise Christ’s teaching on mortal sin. media, and information systems  
Value and nurture opportunities for prayer and co
mmunity celebration  
Respect and affirm the diversity and interdependen
ce of the world's peoples and  cultures

Discerning Believers in the Catholic Faith Communi
ty   Effective Communicators  
Reflective, Creative and Holistic Thinkers  
Self‐Directed, Responsible, Lifelong Learners  
Collaborative Communicators  
Caring Family Members   Responsible Citizens


Develop instructional practice which supports stude
nt learning, especially with 
reference to religious literacy and faith formatio
n  
Build inclusive classrooms based on the inherent 
dignity of the learner and the 
principles of Catholic social teaching  
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teaching.

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ng 
connections between religious learning a
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Caring Family Members
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