Education is always associated with hope. However, it is rarely integrated into concrete educational goals. This article uses Paul Ricoeur’s understanding of the body and the process of cognition to show the possibility of educating for hope. This is only possible in the possibility of opening up one’s own perspectives, which are derived from fundamental meanings. In particular, catechesis must open up the need for hope in concrete corporeality and entanglement in space and time. Pope Francis’s call for a Global Compact on education derives the need to go beyond an education that focuses only on schooling. A renewed role for the teacher, built on trust through a deepened personal relationship, is an excellent start to education for hope. Just as Jesus did when he encountered the Samaritan woman, the catechist can act to bring about a shift in limited perspective and build on the hope that connects.
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