Education for What?

A Catholic Philosophy of Education, by John D. Redden and Francis A. Ryan. 601 pp. Milwaukee: Brace Publishing Company. $4.75

If educators really want to know why they have fallen so low in public esteem, they need only wake up to the fact that they have abandoned concern with the very things of which educators are traditionally the custodians and expositors. There are teachings concerning the nature of reality, the validity of knowledge, the meaning of goodness, and the origin and final end of man. This essentially is what Professors Redden and Ryan show in A Catholic Philosophy of Education. The book is a systematic comparison of Catholic belief and practice with all of the chief modern theories, and particularly with those stemming from the school of John Dewey.

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A Catholic Philosophy of Education, by John D. Redden and Francis A. Ryan. 601 pp. Milwaukee: Brace Publishing Company. $4.75

If educators really want to know why they have fallen so low in public esteem, they need only wake up to the fact that they have abandoned concern with the very things of which educators are traditionally the custodians and expositors. There are teachings concerning the nature of reality, the validity of knowledge, the meaning of goodness, and the origin and final end of man. This essentially is what Professors Redden and Ryan show in A Catholic Philosophy of Education. The book is a systematic comparison of Catholic belief and practice with all of the chief modern theories, and particularly with those stemming from the school of John Dewey.