Message on Poster • 41st World Communications Day • 20 May 2007

Theme: CHILDREN AND THE MEDIA: A CHALLENGE FOR EDUCATION

From media-cation to education

Children exposed to what is aesthetically and morally excellent are helped to develop appreciation, prudence and the skills of discernment. Media education requires formation in the exercise of freedom. Often, freedom is presented as a relentless search for pleasure or new experiences. True freedom could never condemn the individual - especially a child - to an insatiable quest for novelty.

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