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Major Catholic-Liberal Educational Philosophers of the Italian Risorgimento

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2017

Anthony Scarangello
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How much, if any, religion ought to be taught in the State schools? Are State schools to be preferred over private schools—or vice versa? In education, is a State that is allied with the Church to be preferred over one that is separated from it? Aren't the aims and objectives of modern education based, as they ought to be, on reason, contradictions of Catholic education based, as it must be, on faith? These questions, which Italians continue to discuss with both emotion and intelligence, were as real during the Risorgimento as they are today.

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History of Education Quarterly , Volume 4 , Issue 4 , December 1964 , pp. 232 - 250
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Copyright © 1964, University of Pittsburgh Press 

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