Education

In the past twenty years… significant apostolic renewal has been initiated and carried forward by the large number of Jesuits and lay people working in the apostolate of secondary education. In increasing numbers, our educational institutions are accessible to students from economically disadvantaged groups. The quality of education has improved. Our schools have become platforms, reaching out into the community, not only to the extended school community of parents, former students, and friends, but also to the poor and the socially disadvantaged in the neighbourhood. General Congregation 34 [416]

Jesuits in many areas are engaged in the apostolate of primary and pre-primary education. Such schools are very important because they can provide a solid academic and religious foundation during the formative early years; they can be one of the most effective services we offer to people, especially the poor. [418]

The educational apostolate of the Society has been greatly enriched by the contributions made by the centres of non-formal education, established in both rural and urban areas of developing countries. These centres provide education outside the traditional school system for both youth and adults among the poor. With the help of a participative pedagogy, they organize programmes to eradicate illiteracy and supply training in technical and social skills as well as offering a religious and ethical formation geared to the analysis and transformation of the society in which the students live. They educate their students as “men and women for others” who can assume leadership roles in their own communities and organizations. [419]

The Goa Province of the Society of Jesus is committed to the educational apostolate through the following institutions:

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