“So there are different models of Catholic education out there.” Emphatic agreement that this should be celebrated.
Good interview. I also think education alone isn’t the silver bullet. Secular data show that the best way for a child to avoid poverty later in life is to graduate high school, get married, and delay childbearing until after…
“So there are different models of Catholic education out there.” Emphatic agreement that this should be celebrated.
Good interview. I also think education alone isn’t the silver bullet. Secular data show that the best way for a child to avoid poverty later in life is to graduate high school, get married, and delay childbearing until after graduating and marrying. These things create stable households that in turn rear children without so many odds stacked against them.
Now, if Catholic schools wanted to emphatically and universally teach the truth of God’s plan for marriage and family and actually form students and families in those beliefs instead of presenting them as arbitrary restrictions on freedom, we’d probably really get somewhere. Many schools do this, I’m sure. And I’m equally sure, based on the culture, including among Catholic school graduates, that a great many do not.
“So there are different models of Catholic education out there.” Emphatic agreement that this should be celebrated.
Good interview. I also think education alone isn’t the silver bullet. Secular data show that the best way for a child to avoid poverty later in life is to graduate high school, get married, and delay childbearing until after graduating and marrying. These things create stable households that in turn rear children without so many odds stacked against them.
Now, if Catholic schools wanted to emphatically and universally teach the truth of God’s plan for marriage and family and actually form students and families in those beliefs instead of presenting them as arbitrary restrictions on freedom, we’d probably really get somewhere. Many schools do this, I’m sure. And I’m equally sure, based on the culture, including among Catholic school graduates, that a great many do not.