hope and education

Many within education are pessimistic about their work and worn down by governmental intervention and bureaucratic requirements.

There is a fundamental need to 'remoralise' educational practice - to place an understanding of the good, and an orientation to love at its centre. (Halpin 2002)

Education is built on hope: 'that is, on the possibility that it will realise improvement of one kind or another; that being hopeful as a teacher facilitates innovation and an earnestness to do well in one's work; and that hope is a relational construct which in the education context requires teachers to look for and build up the 'Good' in their students. (2002: 30)