The Case for Catholic Education: Why Parents, Teachers, and Politicians Should Reclaim the Principles of Catholic Pedagogy by Ryan N. S. Topping

Author:Ryan N. S. Topping [Topping, Ryan N. S.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Education/Home Schooling / Education/Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects / Religion/Christian Education/General
Publisher: Angelico Press

The truly free man wants only what he can do and does what he pleases. That is my fundamental maxim. It need only be applied to childhood for all the rules of education to flow from it.42

Man is born whole. It is society which corrupts. Man is born happy. It is hierarchy that frustrates. Sound familiar? In its day Rousseau’s work caused a sensation. The French government confiscated the book; the Calvinist governors of Geneva burned it. Catholics everywhere predicted disaster. What we find in Rousseau is an early articulation of the view of freedom as expression.

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