«Who among you is wise and understanding? Let him show his works by a good life in the humility that comes from wisdom. But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast and be false to the truth. Wisdom of this kind does not come down from above but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic. For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there is disorder and every foul practice. But the wisdom from above is first of all pure, then peaceable, gentle, compliant, full of mercy and good fruits, without inconstancy or insincerity. And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace for those who cultivate peace» (Jam 3:13-18).

Amid our neopagan and relativist culture, human identity and sense of life become diffuse, obscure, confused. For that reason, when speaking of education, we start from human identity and a Creational Anthropology.

We situate ourselves at an elementary and fundamental experience: nothing exists that has not been created or made. Everything exists because somebody has made it. The world has had a beginning and somebody is its Creator: a Creator with the ability to produce such a thing as the universe.

Echoing what science postulates, we could say that 14 billion years ago (or more) an explosion occurred that originated the expansive development of the universe. Biblically we could say that the big-bang of the Creation is a huge and simple explosion brought out from nowhere by the creative power of an omnipotent being that we call God. Creation begins by a spark from God's "creative spark gap" (cf. Rev 4:11b).

In the evolution of Creation or of universe, we find the uniqueness of the human person: a created being who is conscious of its existence and directs its life making history of the whole Humankind. The uniqueness of human being consists of being similar to its Creator; of being image and likeliness of God. To be image is to be person.

God has created a Nature which expresses itself through physical and biological laws… But with man God creates a personalized nature. Man is a free and conscious subject who can or cannot orientate his nature according to the moral laws that God has given the person. In the first case, assuming the Creator's will is to assume himself as God's creation and become fulfilled in that way. In the opposite case, the trascendent sense of life gets deformed and this leads to denying, rejecting or ignoring God.

The moral laws (i.e. You shall not kill) orientate the course of life and express God's will. For that reason when the person assumes them, that is to say, makes them his own, he fulfils himself in God's love because he accepts human identity which is his own. Thus the person gains access to salvation grace, and can be filled by the Holy Spirit, who is the Love in the Trinity Community.

To be a person is to be image of God, and live in his likeness. Man as a person, has freedom. Without freedom he could not assume himself and be fulfilled in love. He would be an automaton like the other beings which are not persons. Freedom is meant for fulfilling oneself in what one is, and it does not consist in a physical or biological fulfilment, but a personal and spiritual one. It is such a transcendent fulfilment that includes communion with God.

Nevertheless, man can be mistaken, he needs to know the truth not to be mistaken and do wrong. And the truth is reality just as God created it. God is the only owner of creation, man and nature. The human being was created by God for an eternal fulfilment. God can judge the good and the evil in people's behavior. It is fair that things are done as God wants; it is unfair the desire to displace God, so that things are done in a different way, as man wants them.

The happiness of man is in the fullness of God, and when God reveals His identity we find something new. God not only is not an impersonal and vague entity, as pantheism and the New Age might announce, but he is a tripersonal being. As Christians we speak about the Trinity of God.

God is a Trinitary Community. This is important for human identity. Because man is image and likeness of a Community-God. This means that a person cannot fulfil his life by himself, but with the others. He depends on a communitarian fulfilment (of family, society, church) and the communitarian fulfilment depends on the people who integrate it. That is why we say that man is person in community: person, as somebody proper and different; in community, that is in relation to others, in agreement with unity and common good. Man does not express himself only at a personal level, but also at social and cultural level. There is a cultural and social responsibility in Humankind.

The person is a being in relationship, and is called to live related or connected to others. And this is possible only out of love. Love leads to the person's fulfilment; rejection and aggression destroy his life and make him unhappy. And for this reason, the person needs to learn how to live, needs to be educated and not only brought up. To be related or connected implies coming out of oneself and sharing. Thus the human community is made. The community requires personal matureness, that is to say, capacity to live in communion with others, but differentiated (as a being different from others), without becoming a mass.

God as Creator, loves what He makes: He has created out of love. He is source of Justice and Love. Justice in which we must live and act, and love in the possibility of giving and meeting ourselves with Him and the others. The love of God can trascend his justice and, then, it becomes mercy. A part of the human being dignity will be to respect and cultivate himself in the inner development, matureness and perfection as a person. And, at the same time, to live and live together with respect to others, to walk in the unity of one same human race towards a horizon of universal brotherly communion. The dignity of the human being also includes the respect of man to nature, to the cosmos created by God and ruled by the laws that He has given it. A wise scientific knowledge of reality leads to the discovery, admiration and praise of God Creator.

From this creational and anthropological perspective, man as a person remains open to two dimensions of life: justice and love. God calls us to live up to the sense that He has given to our life. And that sense is in his Love, overflowing towards us.

In life it is necessary to discern what God wants, not to be mistaken and harm oneself. All rights and obligations can be synthesized in this command of the Creator, revealed through the apostle John: Walk in love. Love is the original command and the fullness of law and justice.

As a summary, we can say what we understand by educational task. From this perspective and, when speaking of education, we talk about:

• Transmitting and forming the human identity, that is to say, to personalize.

• Teaching to relate and live with others (to trascend oneself and construct the communitarian dimension), that is to say, to socialize.

• Revealing the trascendent dimension of God and life (total trascendency), that is to say, to christianize.

• Teaching to discern the good from evil; the truth and the mistake; what is real and what is imaginative or interested, specially in relation to culture, that is to say, to think and to seek the truth and the good.

Thus the educational institution reveals as a laboratory of life and of formation of human persons for life, according to the creational identity.