Education As Catering To Desires
By DONALD DeMARCO G.K. Chesterton had the enviable knack of sizing up a situation and responding to it with accuracy, brevity, and wit. Concerning the problems concerning education in his time, which continue to plague us today, he said, “Without education, we are in the horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.” G.K., needless to say, is not contradicting himself. He is simply drawing attention to the fact that there is a wide gulf between the truly educated person and those who fancy themselves as educated.St. John Paul II, whose writing was direct and devoid of irony, believed that the real danger to the future is utilitarianism which reduces the human person to a bundle of desires to…Continue Reading