Our education bears little relation to the development of skills needed to help us navigate this uncertain world.
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Newman’s message of tolerance needed more than ever
From The Irish News, October 15 2019 As I type these words, 1,500 miles away in Rome a Catholic convert is being elevated to the sainthood. John Henry Newman is the first Englishman of modern times to be canonised.…
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We need education that values not just knowledge but its application. Intellectual snobbery undermined technical education in the twentieth century, and our economy has paid the price.
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