The Pope met with students, teachers, and participants in the Jubilee of Education in the Paul VI Audience Hall.
So many people attended that some had to participate from outside the hall, and the Pope joked with them:
POPE LEO XIV
Good morning everyone! Look, guys, the Gospel says that the last are the first, and so it was today! Best wishes, take a good look at the screen, I'll see you from the inside. Best wishes and thanks for being here.
Once inside, he addressed these words to the hundreds of young people. Here are some words with which Pope Leo praised the gift and value of education.
POPE LEO XIV
Education, in fact, teaches us to look high, ever higher. When Galileo Galilei, he pointed the telescope at the sky, discovered new worlds: the moons of Jupiter, the mountains of the Moon. This is what education is like: a telescope that allows you to look beyond, to discover what you wouldn't see on your own. Don't stop, then, to look at the smartphone and its very fast fragments of images: look towards the sky, upwards.
At the end, Pope Leo XIV walked down the central hallway of the classroom greeting all the young people, showing his affection for education. An affection that comes from home: before being pope, he was also part of the educational world, he was a mathematics teacher.
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