Rubens Penha Cysne inducted into Brazilian Education Academy
At a ceremony held in Rio de Janeiro, Professor Rubens Penha Cysne, dean of FGV EPGE, took over Chair 3, first occupied by Abreu Fialho, succeeding the scholar João Paulo do Valle Mendes, who died in 2018.
Meeting of members of the Brazilian Education Academy, left to right: Luiz Pedro San Gil Jutuca, Francis Bogossian, José da Silva Dias, Carlos Alberto Serpa de Oliveira, Arnaldo Niskier, Rubens P. Cysne, Antonio Araujo Freitas, Sidney Mello and Antonio Celso A. Pereira
On October 24, Professor Rubens Penha Cysne, dean of Fundação Getulio Vargas’ Brazilian School of Economics and Finance (FGV EPGE), was formally inducted into the Brazilian Education Academy.Cysne took over Chair 3, first occupied by Abreu Fialho, succeeding the scholar João Paulo do Valle Mendes, who died in 2018.
The ceremony took place at the Cesgranrio Foundation in Rio de Janeiro. The event was presided over by the president of the Brazilian Education Academy and Cesgranrio Foundation, Professor Carlos Alberto Serpa de Oliveira; former Rio de Janeiro state education secretary, Professor Arnaldo Niskier; the president of Rio de Janeiro Catholic University, Professor Padre Anderson Antonio Pedroso; the president of Fluminense Federal University, Professor Sidney Mello; and Fundação Getulio Vargas board member, Professor Lindolpho de Carvalho Dias.
During the event, Professor Rubens Penha Cysne was also welcomed by professors Luiz Pedro San Gil Jutuca of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro State; Francis Bogossian of Veiga de Almeida University; José da Silva Dias of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro State; Antonio Araujo Freitas of FGV; and Antonio Celso A. Pereira of Rio de Janeiro Federal University and Rio de Janeiro State University.
In his inaugural address, Professor Rubens Penha Cysne emphasized the difference between education and teaching, “Education, encompassing the development of non-cognitive skills, must prevail over its reduced version of mere teaching,” he said. “In graduate schools, students are becoming increasingly aware that higher education, especially today, is no longer sufficient to prepare them for life, as was once believed. Education is increasingly becoming indistinguishable from life itself. As with a bicycle, those who stop will fall.”
Check out an excerpt from the ceremony in the video below:
The professor also emphasized the importance of the link between higher education and elementary and high school education. “One of the great satisfactions I’ve had in recent years has been developing the FGV EPGE High School Program. Elementary and high school education is contagious for those who wish to pass on their acquired knowledge and experience. Youth is always exuberant and overflowing, whether in pain or joy, although I believe more in joy than in pain. Our profession is very fortunate, as it gives us this contact with the future before it arrives,” he said.
Professor Rubens Penha Cysne and his wife Anja Emsden
As well as now being a member of the Brazilian Education Academy, Professor Rubens Cysne is a member of the Technical Council of the National Trade Confederation, the Economics Council of the Rio de Janeiro State Federation of Industry, the Economics Council of the Rio de Janeiro Commercial Association and the Economics Council of the National Agriculture Society.
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