Education in the Second Vatican Council

When we are celebrating the closing of the 2nd Vatican Council, this research is based on this important event and intends to find out what the Church says about education. In this sense we will analyze the content of the documents approved by the General Assembly. In order to develop a content analysis methodology we have started with the Council Declaration, as it refers directly to the importance of education (Gravissimum Educationis) after it, we have analyzed in which extent such educational conception (vision) remains in the other Council documents. The research confirms that there is an educational vision that may be deducted from the analysis of the Council documents. The analysis also underlines the importance of the human being (person) as the basis of livelihood and the real justification of the educational task that belongs to the Church