Cardinal’s View Of Defects In Modern Education

Grey River Argus, 28 October 1948, Page 5

Cardinal’s View Of Defects In Modern Education

LONDON. Oct. 27 “We don’t want to be ordinary men and women, we want to be extraordinary, and uncommon. In fact, we want to be the heroes of the twentieth century,” said the Cardinal Arch-

bishop of Westminster, Dr Griffin, in anaddress to the Catholic Students Union at Edinburgh. . He said i “In these stirring and dif fieult times we must never be depressed. The K realer f t f he t J an T ? e^ o Sd greater must be our efforts. It would annpar that many educationists today are seeking to present education Wl “The t result’ is that the student fails to be clear in expression and precise n dota l The curriculum is overloaded Examinations are exacting, and we are .in danger of becoming br “Cme a main n danger in modern edu~\i ic nrouaganda, as we see it ca t, l 9 n in t he in Eastern EuropS Jo Propagate false pholisophies.”