Write up on topic true learning liberates
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We are growing accustomed to children opening fire on their teachers and classmates, to teachers and clergy abusing children. We feel no surprise at students graduating from high school unable to read, at parents suing schools, or harried parents refusing the imposition of homework as an infringement on their limited quality time with their latch-key orphans. We think nothing of hearing that our high schools and colleges offer credit for the study of “gangsta rap” and “harlequin romances.”
For two hundred years now, our schools and universities have abandoned the old liberal arts curriculum in favor of a subjects-and-disciplines, skills-and-information, approach. Our schools are drowning youth in tides of information. That they are overdue for major reform, only the most die-hard of teacher-unionists can now deny. But what shape that reform will take in the next decades will determine the direction of the republic and the Church for centuries to come. Those we are educating now will soon become teachers, businessmen and directors; most will become parents and “primary educators” of their children. It is incumbent on us to take seriously the education we impart to succeeding generations.
The word “education” comes from the Latin educare, to draw out. Genuine Catholic education draws us from ignorance, isolation, and self toward humanity, knowledge, and God. Our schools should be dedicated to drawing out students’ souls by imparting to them the arts of learning.