I know our ultimate goal should be Heaven, and to know, love, and serve God here on earth.
But what are the subordinate goals that lead to that? Where does education fit in? How much? Is there such a thing as too much or to little? What kinds? I read about unschooling and love how it keeps the love of learning alive and leaves time for developing talents, etc. I want that for my kids. And 10 minutes later I can read about Great Books programs, or "Well Trained Mind" type educating, and want that for them too. I would have loved that as a child, and I can tell that at least 2 of my 3 school age chilren have a similar bent. And then there is Charlotte Mason, Montessori, Latin Centered....oh my!
My dh asserts (and I agree) that the subordinate goals for our son will be different from our daughters'. We want to prepare our son to support a potentially large family. We don't want the GOAL for our daughters to be supporting a large family, although we would like them to have skills/degrees that will enable them to learn how to do so if necessary. They should be able to support themselves if God calls them to singlehood. Both genders will be taught to keep house and budget so that in my fast approaching old age I can put my feet up and watch them (lol, just kidding on the reasoning).
But since my son is only half a year old, I don't need to worry about him just yet. ;-)
As usual, I have no answers, as this blog is as much a "pondering space" as anything.
Does anyone know of any Catholic writings on what the goals of education should be - on how to merge knowing, loving, and serving God with learning arithmetic? I'm sure there will even be various opinions on that, but I'd like to peruse them anyway. Because I can say, "I think learning math up through Calculus is important," but if I can't answer the question, "WHY?" and then relate it back to the whole reason we're here (to know/love/serve God), what good is my statement?
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