“If we don’t educate our children,” Fr Ronald Knox once warned, “someone else will. In our day, of course, the someone else is the State; and the State, we can be quite certain, will make a hash of it.”
Fr Knox’s hope was that the Church and the family would not ‘make a hash of it’. Most teachers today probably also hope that they are not turning out the moral and mental equivalents of a starchy sausage fry-up. Yet many of us who have passed through Catholic schooling may find that a comparison to a scrambled stovetop mess hits rather near the knuckle.
