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Pope Francis Rejects Educational Experimentation

by Catholics for Classical Ed

April 16, 2014

On Friday Pope Francis addressed the members of BICE (International Catholic Child Bureau) who were received at the Vatican.  He mentioned his opposition to educational experimentation:

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On a positive note, we must reaffirm the right of children to grow up in a family with a father and a mother capable of creating a suitable environment for the child’s development and emotional maturity .

At the same time, this implies supporting the right of parents to decide the moral and religious education of their children. And in this regard I would like to express my rejection of any kind of educational experimentation with children. We cannot experiment with children and young people. The horrors of the manipulation of education that we experienced in the great genocidal dictatorships of the twentieth century have not disappeared; they have retained a current relevance under various guises and proposals and, with the pretense of modernity, push children and young people to walk on the dictatorial path of “only one form of thought”.

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