Ingenious For Catholicism, Pope Francis! Inspiring Me To Ingenuity With Students Catholic Or Not

I see Pope Francis changing the conduct of the Roman Catholic Cathecism class with his idea of a “School of Prayer” (Cindy Wooden, 12 April 2024, “Pope Turns Rome Catechism Class Into 'School Of Prayer',” NCR Online, ncronline.org).

The above image shows Pope Francis listening to a question as he meets with 200 children at the St Joan Vianney parish on the eastern edge of Rome, 11 April 2024, amidst his “School of Prayer” initiative.

Inadvertently, Pope Francis is changing the face of Roman Catholicism. If slowly.

Ms Cindy says Pope Francis “has asked Catholics around the world to observe 2024 as a "Year of Prayer" in preparation for the Holy Year,” 2025:

The pope's lesson for the children focused on the theme of prayers of thanksgiving, the Dicastery for Evangelization said in a statement afterward.

It is important to say thank you for everything. For example, if you go into someone's house and you don't say thank you or may I or hello, is that nice?" he asked. "The first word is 'thank you.'

Pope Francis gave each child a folder containing, among others, a special prayer of thanks composed for the occasion; “the prayer thanked God for the gift of life, the gift of parents, the gift of creation and, especially, ‘the gift of your Son, our brother and savior, friend of the small and the poor’." Gifts!

You taught us to call you 'Father,' and with your word you call us to live as true sons and daughters, to be brothers and sisters who walk together in the grace of the faith we received with our baptism," the text continued. "Thank you, Lord, who loves us.”

Francis asked the children if they pray, and one of the youngsters said his family prays before they eat.

"You said something important," the pope told him. They should all thank the Lord for the food they eat and for giving them families.

Me: On the part of parents, we should all be thanking the Lord for giving each of our children an innate primary intelligence – each parent has one’s own.

Inspired with all that, a Roman Catholic and a teacher myself, I am thinking of changing the face and facts of the whole high school education in the Philippines. Introducing my idea of being INGENIOUS:
Individuals
Neatly in
Groups
Encouraging
Native and/or Natural
Intelligences’
Outputs in
United
Struggles.

Interactively, INGENIOUS will bring out individual intelligences, encouraging participants to contribute her/his innate talent – following the theory of Multiple Intelligences by Harvard Professor Howard Gardner.

I see that it is now the duty of every teacher, from Grade School to Grad School, to help discover and develop each individual’s innate talent.

Individual geniuses: Learning from Pope Francis, high school teachers could be assigning group projects that encourage students (and the teacher to encourage them) to use their “hidden” talents, being “Word Smart. Reasoning Smart. Picture Smart. Body Smart. Music Smart, People Smart. Self-Smart. Nature Smart. Critic Smart.

No coercion, no bullying. Give thanks to God!@517