July 17 - 6th Meeting
Examine Catholic education in America (54 pp. reading).
Opening prayer and meditation: Anima Christi.
- Excerpts from Dawson, Christopher, The Crisis of Western Education, 1961, reprinted Steubenville, Franciscan University Press, 1989, chapter VI, “The development of the American educational tradition,” and chapter VII, “Catholic Education and Culture in America,” pp. 71-99.
- McInerney, Ralph, “A civilizing force,” published in Notre Dame Magazine, Summer 1991, and republished in The Latin Mass, 1995. McInerney describes pre-conciliar Notre Dame as a humble community of learning full of promise.
- Aldrich, Nelson W. IV, “The upper class up for grabs,” published in The Wilson Quarterly, Summer 1993. Aldrich examines the decadence of a community of faith and reason in the US, the WASP ascendancy.
- MacIntyre, Alisdair, “Aquinas’ critique of education: against his own age, against ours,” published in Philosophers on Education: Historical perspectives, ed. Amelie Oksenberg Rorty, London and New York, Routledge, 1998.
- Suggestion for further reading: Auchincloss, Louis, The Rector of Justin, New York, Modern Library, 2001.