The remarkable academic success of the Catholic high school is apparent, particularly when one views its effectiveness for certain disadvantaged and minority children.
Students have obligations to their teachers, obligations arising from the fact that the teacher-student relationship is primarily a spiritual relationship.
If one of our main purposes in life is to become wise, to understand the things that really matter, then we must seek where these important things are taught.
Public education itself is threatened when the foundational principles upon which it is based are ignored.
The therapeutic mode of understanding society and identity is now so integral to modern life that some psychologists predict it will eventually triumph over all other modes, that psychology is destined to provide the frame of reference by which all other beliefs and commitments will be judged.
How to develop in our students the desire to undertake "great and difficult things" and to follow and imitate Christ is the subject of this stimulating article by Daniel McInerny.
Rather than seeing Catholic education as merely the addition of a religion course to the usual academic subjects," we want our students to make Christian sense out of what they learn in their natural science, math,"and history courses, in their study of art, music, and literature.
A loose, but comfortable, working relationship between religion and the public order was accepted by almost everybody until at least World War II.
To make mandatory in the schools a program whose catechism is diametrically opposed to the understanding of most traditionally religious people, let alone most parents, is an outrageous challenge to the rights of the citizens and means that what many parents are teaching their children at home is being directly contradicted and undermined by what is going on in the classroom.
As liberal arts programs in universities around the country have marginalized those Great Books which constitute the Western Canon, Louise Cowan and Os Guinness have given us Invitation to the Classics, a concise primer for the literary classics.