Our Educational Philosophy

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Our Educational Philosophy

William H. Marshner

Christendom Magazine
Christendom College
1983

The College exists to produce the one thing it promises to its students: a Catholic education. The philosophy or theory of education which guides the College, therefore, emerges in the analysis of that one thing.

Let’s start with the noun, ‘education.’ And then let’s start with a guitar. A guitar has several uses: it can be used to make money, to make merry, or to kill time: it can be used as a solo instrument or as an accompaniment, for classical repertory, flamenco, blue-grass. or rock. In all these uses the guitar is ‘”good.” because all these uses are in line with its end. in line with what it’s for. By contrast, a guitar can be used as a club, and in that use it’s not so good. A billy-club is better. Brawling departs from what a musical instrument is for. Now take this distinction between a thing’s uses and its end, and apply it to the human mind.

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Why Liberal Arts At Christendom College?

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Why Liberal Arts at Christendom College?

By W. H. MARSHNER

Christendom College
Office of Admissions
This pamphlet was published and distributed over several years at Christendom College. No exact date of publication is available.

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The College exists to produce the one thing it promises to its students: a Catholic education. The philosophy or theory of education which guides the College, therefore, emerges in the analysis of that one thing.

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The Wright Intervention

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THE WRIGHT INTERVENTION

W.H. MARSHNER

THE WANDERER (Section Two)
November 2, 1972

In September of 1971, a “joint assembly” of priests and Bishops met in Madrid to adopt guidelines on pastoral action. When they were finished, a week later, they had approved a gigantic document, divided into seven parts (ponencias — an untranslatable word which means both “theses” and “chapters”). Each part consisted of a long body of texts followed by 50 or so “propositions” or conclusions, each of which had been voted on separately. The finished document was held to be a milestone in Spanish Church history, and its approval by the full hierarchy of the national conference was thought to be a rubber stamp affair. Continue reading “The Wright Intervention”

Send This Man To School

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Send This Man To School

W. H. MARSHNER

Triumph
Vol. VII No. 5
May 1972

The USCC Department of Education is “helping” the American bishops to produce a pastoral letter on Catholic education, the provisional text of which I recently had occasion to see. It characterizes the rival, public education, as a “system which does not systematically embrace faith-inspired values. Such a school system,” the pastoral continues, “may seek ‘neutrality’ with regard to religious and moral values; but neutrality is impossible, since all education involves values, and morality is deeply imbedded in all formal education.”

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