tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2707703066300530859.post2671314627343772157..comments2024-03-15T02:09:23.712-06:00Comments on for the love of learning: Should Catholic schools be publicly funded?Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15047405950514440042noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2707703066300530859.post-22650067704321224972014-12-15T09:29:16.527-07:002014-12-15T09:29:16.527-07:00Although I do not particularily agree with either ...Although I do not particularily agree with either view point, I will say this. It does not matter what worldview you bring to school, whether it be as a teacher or as a student, it is part of your education. Let us never forget that education is much more that the three R's. Social mores are engrained into our current curriculum, and I don't see them being removed anytime soon, and I question whether it is even possible.So as much as the Catholic system has an agenda, so does mainstream public education. Do our governments have the best interests of their people in mind in their mandated curriculum, or even other policies outside of education? This will always be debated by different people groups.<br /><br />To me this argument is simply about which religous group should get publicly funded education. From that perspective, I ask the question, if one is funded, should they not all be funded? From tax payer perspective, would I rather have the government fund all religious schools, or just fund one model of public school? Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17723041792470701172noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2707703066300530859.post-50093574431559039042014-07-03T22:47:25.793-06:002014-07-03T22:47:25.793-06:00I couldn't disagree more with several of the c...I couldn't disagree more with several of the contentions of this post. The public education system was once considered the protestant system, opposed to the separate Catholic system. The very fact, arguably, that we have public education is, for the most part, due to efforts of the Catholic church, beginning with the scholastic movement of the Middle Ages. Saying that a secular system is solely based upon reason and science, opposed to an ignorant "faith based" system is ridiculous. You are simply blind to the faith that you have in the assumptions of secularism and humanism, which are each fraught with unsubstantiated assumptions. I will not get into the discussion about homosexuality, because it is a complicated topic. Suffice to say that the liberation which is incipiently espoused here is not true liberation,...it is enslavement. Much of the agenda espoused by the social theorists of our education system is covert enslavement. St. Augustine said that you have as many masters as you have vices, and the Marquis de Sade said in his 120 Days of Sodom that to enslave a people, promote immorality.<br /><br />You state that the public system does not have an agenda, but exists solely for the "public good"? Is this a bad joke? What about enculturing children to blindly and unquestioningly accept authority? And hospitals (and doctors) kill thousands of people in this country, and we still fund them, because we blindly accept the authority figures that tell us that the system, governed by a corporate agenda, is the best one for us. <br /><br />Thus I think the public system is the one blindly based upon an unexamined faith, and the Catholic one now more than ever leads us to question the status quo.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01637103790417287390noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2707703066300530859.post-33117525645146927802014-06-12T09:41:50.638-06:002014-06-12T09:41:50.638-06:00I very much agree with this post and wish thoughts...I very much agree with this post and wish thoughts like this were more widely spread and understood. <br /><br />I am currently an Education student and we had this discussion in one of my classes. I was the only one arguing against Catholic schools. Most people seem to believe that since anyone has the OPTION of going to a Catholic school (whether Catholic or not) it is acceptable to teach only one faith. <br /><br />I find it extremely frustrating that people are forgetting that school is about Education and Church is about faith. Can't we keep these ideas separate? <br /><br />http://pinktriangularapples.blogspot.ca/2014/06/being-gay-in-catholic-school.htmlAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08291006227217066966noreply@blogger.com