'THE CASE FOR CATHOLIC EDUCATION'
an exchange o l rlews 'The Case for Catholic Education' College Point, N.Y. To the Editors: In his essay on Catholic Education [Jan. 21], Father McBrien's views are biased by his apparent...
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...21] presents helpful criteria to ensure the distinctiveness of the institution: acceptance of Jesus as Lord, the scriptures, Eucharistic celebrations, witness, and mission...
...The educative witness of vowed teaching personnel living in community is needed at these institutes where the only alternatives envisioned for escape from minority powerlessness are either a caricltttwization of American rugged individualism or a rhetorical Marxism...
...Then American Catholic higher education will really teach as Jesus did...
...When this contemporary approach is accepted, the student is the center of education...
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...Certainly if he has been exposed to these latter, he has found that the path to learning is by experiment (his or others), problem-solving, and hypothesis testing...
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...Judge shows his own philosophical hand when he identifies himself sympathetically with the view that "the path to learning is by e x p e r i m e n t . . . , problem-solving, and hypothesis testing...
...Richard Costello Diocese of Norwich, Connecticut Dates: --June 6 - 10 Place: --Cathedral College of the Immaculate Conception, Oouglaston, N.Y...
...To the Editors: Richard P. McBrien's "Fhe Case for Catholic Education" [Jan...
...And to call these latter institutions "Catholic" as if there were any other alternative in that period is fallacious...
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...Medieval princes supported and protected these institutions not because they were interested in Catholic education but because they needed literate, clerical, subservient bureaucrats to administer their realms as the state legislatures are looking to their state higher education systems to provide useful social and civil functionaries...
...The United Negro College Fund advertisement on television is no promotional high melodrama at Fisk where we are canceling courses and majors due to lack of funds, patching together loans to meet the monthly payroll, and facing a cumulative deficit of over 1.8 million...
...It is a strange anomaly that the national Catholic hierarchy should summon Catholic education to teach as Jesus did and yet hesitate to provoke Catholic education to follow the example of Jesus who did not find it necessary to control the institutions in which he taught...
...The medieval universities were never "Catholic" by choice but by social accident and political necessity...
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...In general, this theory holds that there is a body of knowledge to be transmitted to the students and it is the teacher's task to communicate it...
...It seems to-be Brother Dclahanty's view that all academic disciplines are equal...
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...Catholic higher education is to put Jesus at the bottom where he indicated he wanted to be when he washed the disciples' feet at the Last Supper-and then to place itself there beside him...
...Josef Fuchs, S.J...
...Campus dialogne and other cooperative efforts toward an "integral vision" are not really poss~le if some disciplines are sacral and others not...
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...In Catholic education such a kencTw/s is necessary since ultimate wisdom is personal inundation with the loving God as revealed in the death and resurrection of Jesus who himself is the wiJdom of the Father...
...The radical ken6sis of Catholic education provides a truly" Hberating liberal arts education experience which is the real instrument of liberation for oppressed minorities...
...Mary Buckley St...
...Metaphysical abstractions arc . . . useless, untested and unworthy of consideration...
...Mary's College, Dublin Dates: --June 13- 17 Place: --Cathedral College of the immaculate Conception, Oouglaston, N.Y...
...The plight of Meharry and Fisk multiplies over and over again in minority education, and the humanistic education which Catholic education has laid claim to preserve is in jeop ardy within the minority education experience...
...The question is: If our effort truly is an integration of present world awareness with the Catholic Faith as it is understood today, how can we overlook the way learning is taking place today...
...The proper diagnosis for this malady is the brick and mortar-real estate syndrome...
...Liberal arts, theology and professional studies have essential roles to play in determining the distinctive nature of the Catholic institution...
...Indeed his vigorously anti-institutional thrusts ignore the fact that his own pastoral work is being done, and can only be done effectively, in an institutional context and with institutional support of some kind...
...Therefore, the problem for anyone attempting to define the function of a Catholic university is to integrate the Catholic faith, arrived at by belief in the untestable with a method of learning entirely foreign to it...
...A teacher in a similar situation took the time to warn that distracted class: "Not one stone will be left standing upon a stone...
...However, that may be the caricature which he finds easiest to refute...
...In the end, Father O'ConncU disparages liberal education in favor of a clich6-ridden (e.g., "subservient bureaucrats") exercise in moralizing...
...Historically, the normal state has been that Catholic higher education finds itself wherever the educational action is and not withdrawn in some secure enclave...
...The ethical question is whether it is necessary to employ extraordinary means of life-support systems on a beloved and once fruitful but now terminal case when the effort expended could be more profitably applied elsewhere...
...pointed out nineteen years ago in American Catholic Crossroads, is a unique development in the long history of Catholic education...
...NESL J. O'CONNELL, O.F.M...
...Such an understanding of Catholic education does not need r control, let alone possess, any specific institution of higher education to be effective...
...These are the routes suggested by Father McBrien...
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...He seems not to understand that his own work as a chaplain would be without solid foundation if the Christian tradition he so fervently calls upon were not carefully appropriated through serious scholarship...
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...Metaphysical abstractions are dismissed by these theories as useless, untested-andunworthy of consideration...
...Enda McDonagh Maynooth College, Dublin -Rev...
...If France and England of the Middle Ages had been pluralistic societies like the present age, and they were much more pluralistic than we have been led to imagine, Paris and Oxford would have been Paris State and Oxford State which in actuality is what they were...
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...Augustine and Dante but Plato and Virgil as well...
...Does he, too, accept the positivist doctrine that there can be no distinction between facts and values, that value judgments are, in the final accounting, impossible to make...
...The case must be made for American Catholic higher education in a minor 15 April 1977:244 key to serve in those impoverished segments of American higher education where its incarnational and sacramental attributes are sadly needed...
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...I write almost in the shadow of Meharry Medical College and Fiak University, two Black institutions which face imminent extinction due to financial woes...
...Maybe this is why the mendicants took such a phenomenal lead in education during the thirteenth century since their appreciation of radical poverty aptly prepared them for an esteem of the ken~/s necessary for pursuing wisdom...
...Deans and presidents suddenly are helpless in academic encounters before an avowed mendicant on their faculty...
...Richard J. McCormick, S.J...
...Thousands will never benefit Lrom a Catholic education as long as it is dominated by Judaizers who wish to preserve their inheritance for a select few...
...JOSEPH B. JUICE Riverdale, N.Y...
...It is here that the incarnational and sacramental approach of Catholic higher education is sorely needed...
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...It is a "given," a fact which brings deeper meaning to their lives in some way...
...It is comfortable in any circumstance of education...
...John's University, Jamaica...
...If integration is going to occur at all in a college or university (and the central argument of my essay is that such integration is both desirable and necessary), then it can only occur on the basis of some hierarchy of values...
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...The authorities he calls upon to support his statements, e.g., Hutchins, Newman, Maritain, Dawson are all representatives of the theory of education known as classical realism, either in ideology or in actual practice...
...In the spirit of the biblical pursuit of wisdom, Catholic education abandons all treasme and enticements to power to obtain wisdom...
...But if a Catholic institution of higher learning is going to excel, it should be in the areas that only it can do well...
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...It is, instead, a style, a manner, a spirit of education which is incarnational and sacramental...
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...His model is the seminary and the liberal arts college...
...The very lfl)erty of the children of God proclaimed by vowed teaching personnel engages administrations in whole different ball games where quality and ethics of education are more important than salary and rank...
...Whether one might agree or disagree with this rejection of abstractions, it is where most serious students are today, whether they are in school or out of it...
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...Meanwhile, the majority of educators in American Catholic higher education are siring around calling attention to the structure of their temple...
...Paul, Ignatius, Justin, Athanasius and Augustine all practiced it hundreds of years before the first medieval universities existed...
...How helpful is "this integral vision of Catholic higher education" that fails to include the professional studies--education, engineering, business, law, medicinz---that address the urgent needs of society...
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...The sober response for the moment is the realistic one of: "The harvest is good but laborers ,are scarce...
...Each of these studies has assumptions about individuals and society, and these are explicitly expressed within the discipline...
...The real task of U.S...
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...He is to learn by doing, by problem-solving, by dialogue, by guided experience, depending on the individual theorist or philosopher, but it is the student who is the active agent, not a passive receiver of knowledge...
...Catholic education sees all learning as but outward signs of the life-giving...
...The truth of the matter is that Catholic higher education has nothing to do with campuses, brick, mortar and real estate...
...The male-dominated medieval schoolmen regularly feminizdd wisdom and frequently chose female patrons for their institutions...
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...It is stated in much more refined and challenging terms by such proponents of the theory as John Wild, Harry Broudy, and by Jacques Maritain...
...Brother Delahanty also misunderstands my position...
...Paris and Oxford could hardly have been other than Catholic just as Cairo and Cordoba could hardly have been other than Muslim...
...Don Kimball Diocese of Santa Rosa...
...The already estabfished educational institutions bf synagogue and temple court were the places where Jesus exercised his teaching ministry...
...Paul Surlis, and Dr...
...It appears clear to me that this problem is basic to any realistic discussion of the Catholic universRy in the latter half of the 20th century...
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...favor the central place of the student in education...
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...This is an assumption uncritically embraced in the 1960s but now in reasonably rapid retreat...
...Most contemporary theories of education and the philosophies on which they are based (Geiger, Feigl, Feibleman, Cohen, et al...
...These components often seem beneath the noble ideals of those who urge the views of theology and liberal arts...
...He certainly is not talking about education as it is viewed in most university and school circles today...
...21]: The great misfortune of American Catholic higher education in recent years is that it has become over-identified with Catholic-sponsored and -controlled institutions and even worse with campuses sponsored and controlled by a specific religious order or congregation...
...There are indeed some disciplines which are closer to the center of the Catholic educational enterprise than others...
...William G. Doty University of Massachusetts --Rev...
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...It was a rueful day when romantic nineteenth century medievalists created the fantasy of the "Catholic" medieval university which has stalked American Catholic higher education ever since...
...Thus, theology is "preferred" in academic life, and the liberal arts are to have philosophy and classical .literature in "a place of prominence and even priority...
...Many a student on these campuses has not only not read St...
...you mean the Friars forgot to claim John Wesley as a Third Order member...
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...Beg the harvest master to send out laborers to gather his harvest...
...Father O'Connetrs long letter is written in the genre of a homily, stronger on moral passion than on critical analysis...
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...Unfortunately, when he describes what these mean "concretely," he falls back on a model that is inadequate as it only reflects the origin--not the present situation--of Catholic higher education in America...
...When these were not available, the market place, the prow of a boat, the hillside, and even the desert would suffice...
...No serious person denies that the student is an active participant in the process of learning, but the student is not, in the sense that Mr...
...If he or anyone else thinks that medieval university people were simply tbe tools of the political powers, let them read Beryll Smalley's The Becket Conflict and the Schools: the Study ol Intellectuals in Politics in the Twel]th Century (Totowa, New Jersey: Rowman and Littlefield, 1973...
...21], Father McBrien's views are biased by his apparent theory or philosophy of education...
...If they have a faith, it is of another order...
...His article better migh~ have been entitled, "The Theology of Catholic Education...
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...Its major symptom is increasing short-sightedness and its ultimate prognosis, if not arrested, is fatal petrifaction, though some more knowledgeable practitioners might forecast malingering putrefaction...
...It pursues fertile wisdom rather than sterile knowledge like a lover wooing a beloved...
...The ritualistic sacraments provoke the Catholic educator to more easily recognize the sacraments of wisdom...
...In this context, the Catholic sacramental tradition in worship repeatedly readies the Catholic educator for the pursuit of wisdom...
...It is he who must perform the synthesis of his faith (if he has any), with his fxperiences, his culture, his emotions and his discoveries in other fields, especially today in the behavioral and physical sciences...
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...The task of American Catholic higher education today is not to place Jesus in the center, for that is as redundant as putting God in the Bible and an audacious gesture for creatures to do since Jesus can do that quite well himself...
...The suspicion is that Father McBrien has resolved the problem of what a Catholic university should be for himself, as a theologian, but for very few others in Catholic universities...
...Judge insists, "the center of education...
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...The case for Catholic education will be strengthened when the Christian 15 April 1977:242 faith can touch the entire range of llfe and learning to which institutions expose students...
...If Catholic higher education is to critique, redeem and shape the marketplace, it must see the professional studies as more than marginal to its mission...
...It presently is a theory which is not honored or accepted by most educational theorists or practitioners, even in Catholic educational spheres of influence...
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...We have here a nakedly positivist understanding of science, boldly put forth at a time when positivism is fighting for its life...
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...In terms of arriving at a viable position for a Catholic university, these new theories of education must be confronted...
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...Such an incarnational approach immediately evokes a concomitant sacramental approach...
...I do not suggest that education is the transmission of a "body of knowledge" through a process which doesn't engage the student a t all, except in some passively receptive role...
...Every scientific formula, every literary genre, every social statistic, every student, every faculty person, every staff person, and even every administrator becomes a potential vestigium dei...
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...A concatenation of immigrant status, social hostility and defensivehess brought about its birth, and the disappearance of this milieu should bring about its demise after a job well done...
...Chaplain Director Pro Temporr Division of Humanities and Fine Arts Fisk University Reply Joseph Judge misunderstands my Imsition...
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