CAT: Education, Propaganda, and Virtue

Today on the VirtuousPla.net Ignitum Today blogs, my co-blogger Miss Anna Williams discusses the relationship between education and virtue. In summary: being more educated does not make a person more virtuous. I agree with her assessment if we take education to mean "getting a higher degree" and all of the learning which goes with it. But learning is not the same thing as education. A truly well-rounded education is one in which a person learns (strengthening the intellect) but also attempts to inculcate virtue (strengthens the will)...Propaganda--unworthy of the name "education"--can thwart us in our attempt to become virtuous, be it by convincing us that some things are virtuous which are not (and vice versa), or by alternatively convincing us that we ought not be virtuous.

Read the whole thing on the Catholic America Today blog.