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The Three Key Principles Of Jesuit Education

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Jesuit education has been a form of learning for college students since 1548, when the first Jesuit college opened at Messina in Sicily. Saint Ignatius Loyola was the founder of the Jesuits, or, “The Society of Jesus.” He, along with a group of friends, became ordained Catholic priests and decided that their life’s goal was to simply help people. Saint Ignatius decided that schools could be a powerful means of forming the minds and souls of people who would soon be important people in their community. This became a huge success, and many Jesuit schools were formed around the entire world. Every Jesuit school is formed around the idea to produce humans who want to help others, so this means that every Jesuit school has the same basic principles by which they form the minds of the students that attend the school. These principles form a three part process, with each part being a different key movement that must be completed in order for one to become a better person. The first key movement in the three part process that is a Jesuit education is to be attentive. As an infant, our learning is not conscious. We learn by observing and copying. Walking and talking are great examples of this. We do not even realize what we are doing, we are simply copying what our guardians do, which is how we learn. However, as we get older, learning is a conscious decision that we must make everyday. We can not simply copy what others do, because what we learn is much more complex than the

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