Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sep 15, 2004 / 22:00 pm
During his weekly television program, “Keys for and a Better World,” Archbishop Hector Aguer of La Plata, Argentina, said “teaching is not only a job or a profession. It is all this, without a doubt, but it is much more.”
In his comments the archbishop underscored the work of those teachers who “heroically carry out their work as a vocation.”
He also recalled that teachers have “the vocation to educate, and to educate means to bring out a child’s or an adolescent’s potentiality in order to achieve what we want him or her to be: a good man or woman and, in the case of Catholic education, a good Christian.”
“We all remember some teacher whose memory has profoundly marked our personality,” he said, and Jesus Christ is the “Teacher par excellence.”