The Salesian Scholastic Proposal in Italy involves 103 schools spread all over the national territory, with a school population of about 30.000 students and more than 2.000 teachers. The meeting is organized by CNOS School – the national Association that animates and coordinates schools, and is a branch of the Centro Nazionale Opere Salesiane (National Centre of Salesians Works).
“To think of a scholastic curriculum means to respond to the needs of forming good Christians and honest citizens through the integral formation of the student, as Don Bosco had envisaged it in the experience of the school community, conceived as a home that welcomes, a parish that evangelizes, and a playground where friends can meet and enjoy themselves” explains Fr. Enrico Peretti, President of CNOS School.
“The proposal of the Salesian educational tradition – he proceeds – will be deepened in workshops, where new formative opportunities will be taken into account, such as digital didactics in the new juvenile language, the experience of going beyond the limits of the Erasmus project, the encounter with a good job as being capable of generating autonomy and responsibility in the richness of alternation between school and work”.
The Salesian educational experience is present in 130 countries in the five continents, is spread in 3.643 institutes from primary school to university, and hosts over one million students and almost 100 thousand teachers and formators. This originates from the attention to the scholastic system as thought and willed by Don Bosco since the beginning of his educational work, in 1846, and which he first started as evening schools, and later continued also on Sundays and to which he eventually gave a solid shape as daily schools and colleges.
