Secular education is always inferior

Once again we are having an adolescent conversation in Ireland and resolutely fail to learn from the mistakes of others.

Both the US and UK have kindly conducted experiments over the last half century, essentially trying to reinvent the wheel in educational terms, and in both cases with disastrous consequences.

Secular based educational systems have built within their DNA the seeds of their own destruction. Secularism, in all spheres, always fails to learn the lessons of its own past. Making the same pathetic and ghastly mistakes over and over again.

Thus the horrors of the French Revolution and it’s reign of terror, morphs seamlessly into the evils of the Bolshevik and Nazi ideologies of the 20th century. The problem with secularism is that it holds the past in contempt, and armed only with the irrational fads and fashions of its own time, is doomed to disaster. Thus it’s no surprise that it’s educational results in the UK and US have been uniformly appalling

There could be no greater testament to this failed experiment than the spectacle of its main ideological proponents doing all in their hypocritical power to ensure that their own children secure places in the academically superior faith schools. Let’s end this ridiculous debate for once and for all, and in everyone’s interest leave the present successful system as it is.

Eric Conway

Balreask Village

Navan

Co Meath