A Catholic Vision of Education

The Council for Catholic Maintained Schools (CCMS) is the largest employer of teachers in Northern Ireland (8500 teachers). They have an extensive website, including a current issues section. Here's a sample:

The Catholic educator must be interested in enabling young people to take up roles of leadership and responsibility in society and this necessarily involves the attainment of academic success. Yet we aim to form Christian people of competence and conscience, people who can play a full role in society with a Christian vision and value system, a concern for their fellow humans and a deep desire to put their talents at the service of others. To do less than this is to run the risk of reducing education to a simple acquisition of value-free 'facts' or skills to be traded on the market for individualistic and egoistic advancement and betrays not only the Church's mission but also the individual who receives such 'education'. The true test of Catholic education is not simple quantitative results but how the students use his or her gifts and talents.

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