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Renewing Catholic Schools: How to Regain a Catholic Vision for a Secular Age
Edited by R. Jared Staudt. Foreword by Most Reverend Samuel J. Aquila.
Institute for Catholic Liberal Education, 2020
Paperback, 152 pages

Renewing Catholic Schools provides a clear perspective that avoids the serious and damaging errors common to both leftist radicals and “conservative” utilitarians.

It has been persuasively argued that American education is subject to an “Unholy Alliance.” One wing of this alliance comprises leftist radicals, heirs of the 1960s, who promote sexual experimentation; the other wing is made up of technocrats who see education in purely utilitarian terms, as a means of job training.

However much these two factions may conflict, both agree in rejecting traditional liberal arts education, which for years aimed at cultivating civic-minded elites who were capable of employing their leisure productively. …

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