Earning & learning
Carlin, David R. Jr.
must be money so that you can the global economy. continue to live. You say that...
...David looked Lay response to the press reports of the flawed the example, however large the baffled...
...Second, if our school system is or her vocational goal...
...And each year Catholic church in the United percent of the lay-persons questioned there will be a little less...
...nomic pay-off in order to sell the idea of This Carnegie report calls for an ex- A Nation Prepared tells us the same greater spending on education to govertensive restructuring of the K-through- 12 thing scores of other education reports in nors, legislators, school board members, teaching profession: abolition of under- the last few years have told us...
...The right to for daily needs...
...We can sympathize with the bishops EARNING & LEARNING who are now faced with the result of A NATION ILL-PREPARED some sisters' independence and unworldliness...
...Joseph, who was official patron days," like the man who wrote to The later column, I referred to the Dean R. of material needs...
...But we must be uneasily aware we talk about the linkage between educa- and pleasant, the food good, the drinks that the situation has been known to them tion and the economy...
...Commonweal: 396...
...of mind...
...But what tract highly talented people into the has little direct relevance to most vocapromises to make this report strikingly elementary-secondary teaching profes- tions and, worse still, another subject different from most others is that among sion and then give them the tools to do (philosophy) which has no direct relethe members of the twelve-person task their job...
...The convent kept out his message...
...Be sure to read A Nation Prepared...
...Without the backing of the two accomplishments...
...Not of A Nation Prepared: Teachers for the possible...
...nomic justice within the church...
...Our and rightly so, granted the premise - acteristic of genuine professions...
...curity...
...If that 61 percent is augmented communities whose chief work was pecially the nuns who nurtured the by those disturbed by the economic teaching in the schools owned by faith...
...And we can sympathize wonderful organization called The perfectly valid point that the economic with the hard-pressed ordinaries of small New England Board of Higher Edu- future of the region and the nation dedioceses who say that they simply do not cation...
...It After all, how many new and exciting I attended the most recent of these con11 July 1986: 395 ferences the other day, and to my as- ally impossible for any major transforma- I have to confess that I grow nervous tonishment the high point was not the tion of the teaching profession to occur...
...So now there is nothing...
...First, if taxpayers, etc...
...lishment of a system of teacher ranks, - which is becoming relative to Japan But I've spent many years of my life as beginning with "licensed" teachers at what Japan had previously become rela- a college teacher, and that sometimes the foot of the career ladder, proceeding tive to the United States - can produce painful experience has left me with the through "certified" and "advanced cer- video home recorders with workers who conviction that no student is more impostified" steps, and culminating in "lead work twelve hours per day for seven days sible to reach than the one who is most teachers" at the top...
...It belonged to dalized that my church has not the arms race or the American economic them and they could sell it...
...Just how far the unions are will- that I doubt it has economic benefits...
...One group of sisters in New he, and others like him, will make a poor is certainly somewhat illusory...
...overseas annually to the Vatican Catholic bishops should take public Aidan's are among the lucky ones...
...estab- example given in the report) South Korea hauled off to a lunatic asylum...
...As such, it is my duty to go two or pends heavily on the quality of educahave the funds to come to the sisters' three times a year to conferences at which tion...
...Holding the premise with other professions in attracting the meet this competition by employing that learning is a mere means to a vocabest and brightest recruits...
...flurry of interest, will be filed in the great to do its share in producing this enhanced Now, since I have the grave misfornational wastebasket, where we file the national intelligence, we'll have to at- tune to teach a subject (sociology) which typical report on education...
...granting workers who will work equally hard and tional end, such a student concludes - teachers more of the autonomy char- long while being equally ill-paid...
...But the company is both dignified relief...
...You say that for The weakest part of all three versions many years this was a first-rate of the economic pastoral, and the one school...
...We have to be better trained,' strumental value of education diminishes At first glance this looks like one more better informed, more imaginative, more in proportion to its remoteness from his utopian proposal, which, after a brief creative...
...far Twenty-first Century - the report issued ing to go should be clearer when they from it...
...interpersonal relationships...
...And the nothing except what was necessary constitutes an embarrassment...
...True enough...
...frequent funerals...
...holding schools (as opposed to individual will depend on our having a better quality This student also concludes that the inteachers) accountable for their results...
...We can sympathize, too, with those among them who feel that the problem was not of their making - that I HAPPEN to be a member of a perfectly ways are there of making the point -- the they inherited it...
...tions in early July...
...DAVID R. CARLIN, JR...
...But small taken care of its own religious, es- system...
...Washington Post: Hoge study on future church leadership...
...Until they were rescued by the emergency fund, the sisters had not complained or asked for help...
...Just a daily invocation to have been reserved to those who were In my last column on the bishops upGod, the Father of the poor, and to . taught by the nuns in the "good old coming synod, a topic I will return to in a St...
...Calculus is, like, when keep your gin and Scotch - away from you leave your pocket calculator at home, and chemistry is, like, your the young people...
...queer requirements are forcing them to great national teacher unions, it is virtu- While I don't disagree with any of this, spend so much time away from worthwhile subjects like nursing and business management, meanwhile pitying me that my brain chemistry has gone so awry as to get me exercised about such pointless issues as social structure and epistemology...
...with fewest spelled-out policy recom"It was, and it did very well mendations, has been the section on ecofinancially...
...Their and to foreign missions, I am scan- stands on some political issues such as school was a private one...
...tion has not been given high priority...
...And it's not that I don't underin May by the Carnegie Forum on Educa- conclude their annual national conven- stand the necessity of stressing the ecotion and the Economy...
...That is, teachers will have to be vance to anything under the sun, semesforce that produced it are Albert S hanker, paid more, given greater individual and ter after frustrating semester I find myself president of the American Federation of cgrporate autonomy, and rewarded casting pearls to a certain number of such Teachers, and Mary Hatwood Futrell, (though not necessarily through the students, who not only scorn to pick them president of the National Education As- dubious device of "merit pay") for their up, but resent the fact that the college's sociation...
...While it is true that education is good for the economy, this is a dangerous truth, suitable for mature audiences only...
...No in- pressions of dismay, shocked surprise, ception of the flaw is bound to weaken surance, no pension, no Social Se- and indifference...
...third version, the drafters have taken "So whatever money came in pains to point out that the church is more was used to make it a better school than an institution employing people and - to build another building, buy carrying out service programs...
...York, reported the Journal, struggled on audience for the pastoral's sections on ABIGAIL McCARTHY teaching in a poor inner-city neighborhood, all the while falling into deeper and deeper debt to their undertaker for their Of several minds: David R. Carlin, Jr...
...creation of a national omy, we'll have to improve the quality of vealed to us that knowing is the most (though non-governmental) board hav- our "human capital...
...won't be able to cation of education...
...sisters' distress has ranged through ex- beam in the eye...
...When (to use an godlike of human activities would be ing the capacity to certify teachers...
...proclaim justice abides no matter how "Insurance...
...paying teachers a week while earning a mere $3,000 per thoroughly sold on the economic justifienough to enable teaching to compete year, it is clear the U.S...
...whenever I hear anyone justify education food and drink but an exciting discussion with their backing, almost anything is in terms of its economic benefits...
...Nevertheless, the perRuth shook her head...
...It is the more equipment, redecorate the community of Christ's disciples living dormitories...
...The prophetic role is part of that...
...In the "So...
...Considering the resources of the It showed among other things that 61 Ruth nodded...
...plight of the American sisters and those parishes and dioceses, and who did so for The writer urges a moratorium on all indifferent to it (who are probably indifstipends barely covering their needs for collections for funds "destined for over- ferent to any needy), the hope for a sigfood, housing, and clothes, have no such seas" - a response which augurs that nificant Catholic response to the pastoral recourse...
...After all, anyone who atgraduate programs in teacher education, the United States is to compete success- tempted to justify an education budget by replacing them with a Master in Teaching fully in a rapidly evolving world econ- pointing out, say, that Aristotle has regraduate program...
...church has not taken care of its own...
...and competitive edge, if we are to have one, that knowledge is of no intrinsic value...
...States, and the millions we send disagreed with the statement: "The Yet the nuns of the fictional St...
...The discussions, ample, and the accommodations splenat least since 1981 and that its ameliora- frankly, are usually a bit on the dull side...
...Real outrage seems to the response to that which is proclaimed...
...But then lock it up in the cabinet where you "Sure I know what calculus and chemistry are...
Vol. 113 • July 1986 • No. 13
