9 June 2016
A letter writer to the Hamilton Spectator held that the Separate School System of Ontario should be abolished because of the future expected conflict between progressive values and Catholic teaching. Fish was fully conversant with the constitutional position of Separate Schools in the Constitution Act 1867 and in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and didn't care!
It’s obvious which school system Tyler Fish attended.
The Catholic Church’s teachings don’t conform with something thought of last
week, and so the constitutionally guaranteed Separate School system should be
destroyed.
Doesn’t sound to me like the product of scholastic
education.
Tyler Fish believes that progressivism is the path to
greater tolerance and to a better society. Nothing could be more at odds
with the facts. The mark of progressivism is its use of fascist methods
to obtain conformity. The characteristic of progressivism is the lack of
courage to face facts squarely. Reality has a way of imposing its views,
and the progressive responds with greater severity upon people to hold to
conformity. (Like abolishing the Separate School System because its values don't conform to last week's progressivist ideals!)
Whatever secular humanism and its bastard children have,
they owe to the philosophical theology developed in the Christian Church during
the 12th and 13th centuries. Whatever they lack are
evils of their own.
Ontario needs a school system that resists bending with the
latest gust of wind. Too bad the public system can’t be the second one.
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