Father H. has a few comments directed at the half-witted morons of the Synod and their opinion on homeschooling.
From Fr Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment
Apparently critical remarks have been made about home-schooling by some participants in the Synod.
I spent most of my adult life working in a college which was part of a corporation of colleges devoted to providing a middle-class education in the Catholic Tradition as this was understood within the Church of England. It was known as the Woodard Corporation, and contained about thirty colleges.
You might suppose that Canon Nathaniel Woodard, the Founder, must have entertained an uncritical devotion to the project of educating the young in colleges.
Not so.
He once described the practice of the mass education of the young as like trying o get one's hands clean by washing them in filth. His provision of so many establishments resulted simply from his conviction that, since the system existed, its worst features should be mitigated.
It was his view that the ratio of priests to pupils should be 1:10; and he did his best to secure that every member of his colleges should make a sacramental confession (the Victorians used the phrase Auricular Confession to make it sound sinister and unEnglish) on every occasion before receiving the Blessed Sacrament. The Chaplain was to be senior to the head master.
For this, he was mercilessly and endlessly persecuted.
Perhaps today's Catholic Church needs a dose of Woodardian 'Clericalism'.
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