This essay focuses on the relationship between Don Bosco and music. The Saint was influenced by the classical music of great masters as Schopenhauer, Wagner, Beethoven, Shelling and others. Music, of course, and singing hold an important place in his education system.
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The present essay focuses on Don Bosco’s decision to adopt Catholic popular theatre as a further educational tool, to the point that at a later time it becomes part of the methods of the Preventive System. The stage thus becomes, not only a place of learning for the spectators, but also for the actors themselves. The first theatrical performance, according to what is mentioned in Memorie, dates back to June 29, 1847.
Cesare Scurati in his essay focuses on Don Bosco’s intuition in the need to integrate school activites with the extra ones, that is games and physical activities. These latter types of activities allow young people to express their vitality and increase their skills at a relational level.
Jaques Schepens in his essay focuses on the sacraments of Confession and the Eucharist according to the vision of Don Bosco. The Saint saw the sacraments not only as means of grace, but also as accompanying instruments for boys to receive a more complete education.
Tra i valori essenziali la musica, sebbene oggi presente in ogni settore della società,
di certo non occupa il primo posto nella vita dell’uomo, come la salute, il lavoro, le relazioni interpersonali e sociali. Come un valore culturale, una realtà ideale, la musica nella civilizzazione materialistica frequentemente risulta trascurabile. Essa si percepisce come mezzo di distrazione nel tempo libero e come abbellimento nei giorni di festa. Anche nella Chiesa, tradizionalmente portatrice della cultura — a causa dell’interdipendenza tra la cultura e il culto — la musica sembra fungere come “lo zucchero a velo sulla torta” piuttosto che “lievito del pane”, cioè espressione genuina della fede.
Bruno Bellante offers in his essay some food for thought regarding Don Bosco’s choice to use a humanistic educational approach. In fact, according to the Saint, education serves not only to prepare the individual for a future profession, but also to help him in his personal growth as a human being. Continue reading “Bruno Bellerate – Don Bosco’s humanistic approach in education in «Don Bosco’s place in history»”
Prellezo traces the birth and the development and organization phases of the vocational schools established by Don Bosco and related laboratories that would have given the opportunity to poor and abandoned young people to learn a useful profession in order to have a better future.
This essay traces the birth and development of the Oratory, the first educational enterprise created by Don Bosco in Turin. The main objective of the Oratory was to welcome and take care of young people, especially those “abandoned and at risk”, so that they could save their souls and make them honest citizens.
The author of the essay noted how in France Don Bosco is not mentioned (except for the French Salesian Desramaut who conducted in-depth studies on the Saint) among the great names of those who made the history of pedagogy. The young people Don Bosco helped were poor and abandoned, misfits. The Preventive System approach that contrasted the repressive system used in those days, undoubtedly revolutionized the field of education.
This essay deals with the educational method adopted by Don Bosco. The Saint saved many young workers from dangerous environments and of dubious morality by involving them in learning useful trades for their future through workshops.
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