The Risk of Education: Discovering Our Ultimate Destiny

Luigi Giussani, a high school religion teacher throughout the 1950s and 1960s, grounded his teachings in the vast body of experience to be found in Christianity's two-thousand-year history. He told his students, “I'm not here to make you adopt the ideas I will give you as your own, but to teach you a method for judging the things I will say.”

Throughout his life, education was one of Giussani's primary intellectual interests. He believed that effective education required an adequate backgrou...