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Marcus Alberto
De Mario:
“We need to
study more
Kardec and set
education
as
priority”
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Born in São
Paulo and living
in Rio de
Janeiro for 30
years, the
writer and
lecturer Marcus
Alberto De
Mario, works, in
our movement, at
the Spiritist
Center Humility
and Love,
located in Rio
de Janeiro.
To Marcus De
Mario, the
Spiritist
movement is
lacking more
in-depth study
on Kardec and a
greater interest
for education,
which, according
to him, should
be treated as a
top priority.
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O Consolador:
How many books
have you written
so far?
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I have two
published books:
"Spiritist View
on Education" (O
Clarim) and "Spiritism
and Culture" (Mauad).
I have other
books ready and
they ended up as
textbooks. For
2008 some of
them will be
published and
commercialized.
Those are books
about education,
self-help and
Spiritist
novel.
O Consolador:
Why are you so
interested in
Education?
The best answer
I can give is
that this
belongs to my
soul. I have
always been
self-taught; I
also had the
opportunity of
owning a library
with nearly 3
thousand books,
reading
everything but
leaning towards
Education.
It is a calling.
I took Pedagogy,
but I ended up
dropping out,
because I
disagreed with
such
materialistic
ideas and
academic
frivolities when
I was to finish
the course. Many
professors told
me I had nothing
to learn there,
but teach, but I
am always ready
to learn.
Kardec’s studies
about moral
education have
always motivated
me to work in
this area.
O Consolador:
How do you use
the Spiritist
knowledge in
your courses and
lectures?
Out of the
Spiritist
environment I
use the inner
and deep view
that the
Doctrine teaches
us about life
and men. I do
not need to
quote Spiritist
concepts or
words in a
direct way,
everything is
implicit in the
approach that I
do, which is
always
spiritual. Of
course that in
the Spiritist
environment I
have free rein
to explore the
wide range of
knowledge
Spiritism gives
us.
O Consolador:
Describe your
experience in
the Professional
area as a
manager,
lecturer and
educator.
What can I say?
There are more
than thirty
years on the
road, learning,
exchanging
experiences,
reassuring
values. I never
see myself as
one who is going
to teach or
lead, but to
collaborate,
work to
transform
efforts into
goals and common
ideals, looking
to benefit
everyone.
O Consolador:
What is the link
between
Spiritism and
Education?
Good question.
We find among
scholars and
teachers many
concepts and
researches which
have common
sense to
Spiritism.
That is the
link.
And working
values, feelings
and moral
formation is a
common thing,
with the
difference that
the basis of
Spiritist
thinking
broadens the
perspective,
which gets
deeper. At
schools I
present a
Project of moral
education in a
holistic
approach. This
has been well
taken.
O Consolador:
What is your
opinion about
the Spiritist
movement?
A positive one.
I have learned a
lot, witnessed
wonderful
things. But
there are not
only flowers,
there are also
thorns. We need
to know more and
more Allan
Kardec and have
his books as the
basis for any
Spiritist
Center, as well
as we should
strive to live
the teachings
and examples of
Jesus. Over the
last decades the
Spiritist
movement has
grown in
quantity and
quality.
O Consolador:
What is lacking
in the Spiritism
movement?
We need to study
more Kardec and
set education as
priority.
O Consolador:
Why is it so
hard to approach
Education, even
in Spiritist
settings?
Because we have
not realized it
yet, which is
the moral
education
proposed by
Kardec and the
High Spirits.
When you work
the formation of
someone’s
character we
will reach the
core of human
mistakes, and as
time goes by
they will be
over.
O Consolador:
What are the
main
difficulties
faced by
Spiritism?
We as Spiritist
need to
understand that
without
tolerance,
fraternity and
solidarity it is
hard to
accomplish the
unification, as
union is the
first step.
O Consolador:
What
characteristic
stand out in the
participants
during your
lectures?
All of them are
after something
else in life,
that little
thing to give
life a meaning.
But this is not
everybody. Many
managers and
company workers,
as well as
teachers, live
one day at a
time, unfazed
about the
others. By the
way,
indifference and
egoism have
their hands
held, and we
should keep our
faith in the
work of moral
education,
humanization of
relationships
and the real
human values –
moral and
spiritual ones –
to change this
picture, even
though it takes
time. I firmly
believe that we
are planting
seeds that will
germinate with
the protection
of God, because
love is greater
than anything
else.
Observation:
Marcus Alberto
De Mario
maintains the
site
http://www.educacaomoral.org.br/.
You can also
send an e-mail
to
marcusdemario@gmail.com |
