The word "education" comes from the Latin educare, to draw out. Genuine Catholic education draws us from ignorance, isolation, and self toward humanity, knowledge, and God. Our schools should be dedicated to drawing out students’ souls by imparting to them the arts of learning.
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What do we want at the end of our teaching? We want a soul—honest, moral, healthy, competent, confident, open, inquisitive, zealous, and reverent: what used to be called a good Catholic and an honest citizen. Academically prepared for the next level of his schooling, open to learning even if not yet fully in love with the tiresome business of cramming facts and skills into the brain, and spiritually prepared to meet the challenges of the modem world and his own situation and.aspirations with courage, self-control, sympathy, and humility. We want kids we can admire and love. And most of all, we want them to get to heaven.
source: http://www.catholic.com/magazine/articles/true-education-liberates
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What do we want at the end of our teaching? We want a soul—honest, moral, healthy, competent, confident, open, inquisitive, zealous, and reverent: what used to be called a good Catholic and an honest citizen. Academically prepared for the next level of his schooling, open to learning even if not yet fully in love with the tiresome business of cramming facts and skills into the brain, and spiritually prepared to meet the challenges of the modem world and his own situation and.aspirations with courage, self-control, sympathy, and humility. We want kids we can admire and love. And most of all, we want them to get to heaven.
source: http://www.catholic.com/magazine/articles/true-education-liberates