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- Archives - Education -Part three - Why are Catholic schools so popular? 12/5/2003 While working my way through Parts one and two, I think I have found an answer to ‘why the Catholic schools are so popular.’ Previously, in ‘Education part one’ and ‘Education part two,’ I have underpinned both the Catholic and the state school system and their short-comings. In those two papers I gave a brief history [not chronological] of the big changes, which took place in both state and Catholic schools. There was the French Revolution with Rousseau’s & Voltaire’s ideas, which prepared for the Communist/Marxist ideology takeover, in the 20th - 21st centuries in Western society. There is the state school reform in 1963 in the US, as well as Vatican II in the same period [1962-65]. Less than ten years later the big changes in the education system took place in Australia too. Thirty years have passed and the situation in education, whether in the state or Catholic arena, has not improved at all. I don’t want to repeat myself, so here is the answer to the above question: Catholic schools are so popular in Australia because they are still the best tool, in the hands of government through financial backing, for social integration. What I mean by social integration is that the Catholic Church plays a large part in the Australian education system, because 20% of school children in Australia use the Catholic school system. I think we could never emphasize enough that school children are disciplined in the Catholic schools, for this is of foremost importance. This discipline is lacking in the state schools, that is thanks to the spin-doctors who ensure the politically correct line, which claims that discipline is bad for the child. Consequently, the whole Australian society is affected - illiteracy, family breakdown, homosexuality, divorce, adolescent pregnancy, abortion, crime, murder, rape, drug addiction, vandalism, and so on are the result. Naturally, discipline means rules and regulations, order, control, restraint, obedience, and authority. These principles are missing in the government schools. And so, where there is discipline, we have these traditional methods mentioned above. In other words, we have an ethos, from which morals spring. The state schools got rid of the Christian ethos thirty years ago. Therefore, not only are school children today getting a poor formal education, which is not even the shadow of the old one; but they also become dysfunctional, because of the lack of an ethos on which morals are based. Discipline is part of the Catholic education system. Yet, Catholic school discipline per se does not make the Catholic school Catholic. There are plenty of non-Christian people around the world who still discipline their children. Discipline is like a rod which is used by two different people for two different purposes. One person could use it to murder his neighbor; another could use it to discipline his child. It is the intention in the use of the rod that makes an individual moral [read religious]. Now I am not arguing whether or not we should use discipline within the school system. I am arguing that the Catholic school is hardly more Catholic than the state school in spite of its lack in discipline. In fact, it is precisely because for its use of discipline that the Catholic school system is so popular, and parents are happy with the Catholic system – not because it is Catholic, but because it disciplines. Paradoxically the media tells us ‘society does not want to discipline its children - it is bad for the child’. Then, 20% of school children in Australia are sent to the Catholic school, because there the children are getting what their parents perceive that they need, and feel unable to give them, namely discipline. Does that make any sense? To come back to the main point of how the Catholic schools act as a tool or instrument of government for social integration? I have already written that, in becoming secular, the Catholic Church has adopted the way of modern society, which is non-Christian. Consequently, Catholic school system follows the same curriculum. In receiving government funding the Catholic schools have to follow and accept state regulations & conditions put upon them. These regulations and conditions are not for the welfare of the students but for state control. The Catholic schools abiding by those state regulations and conditions become the servant of the status quo, i.e. they are at the service of the government of the day. Catholic schools are not building Christian communities, let alone Catholic; but secular-socialist minded children in our modern Australian society. They are doing that better than the state schools, in fact so well that parents are prepared to pay, and pay well, for it. They would be even more popular, if they were not so expensive. Welcome to the New World Order.
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