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Among all educational instruments the school has a special
importance.[19] It is designed not only to develop with special
care the intellectual faculties but also to form the ability to judge
rightly, to hand on the cultural legacy of previous generations, to
foster a sense of values, to prepare for professional life. Between
pupils of different talents and backgrounds it promotes friendly
relations and fosters a spirit of mutual understanding; and it
establishes as it were a center whose work and progress must be shared
together by families, teachers, associations of various types that
foster cultural, civic, and religious life, as well as by civil
society and the entire human community.
Beautiful indeed and of great importance is the vocation of all those
who aid parents in fulfilling their duties and who, as representatives
of the human community, undertake the task of education in schools.
This vocation demands special qualities of mind and heart, very
careful preparation, and continuing readiness to renew and to adapt.
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