It is a bane of what we laughingly call our educational system that the seminar, once the preserve of graduate studies, has trickled down into high schools, into grade schools, into kindergarten. I suppose that in day care centers they now consult the toddlers to find out how to run the place. A teacher, by definition, knows more than we do, if we are pupils. Teaching is an art and learning is another, but they are distinct, if complementary, activities. Confusing the one with the other is a sure way to prevent either from achieving its end.
Graduates are now blissfully ignorant of history and mathematics and science.
We will be told that they now think for themselves and are not as docile as kids once were. Well, no doubt it does put a crimp into one's creativity to have to accept the multiplication table, the precise dates when things happened, and who founded the country and why. But to call this having one's own ideas about such things could only occur to a product of such an educational system. The nonsense that has pervaded education generally for much of this century has long since crept into the way in which the faith is passed on from one generation to the next. You don't need to hire a pollster to find out that products of Catholic education, grade school, high school, college, have not the faintest idea of what it means to be a Catholic.