«May '68» and pedagogical modernism

Reporting of Roman correspondence
Of Giovanni Tortelli
In the previous article «Maggio ‘68», the revolution of nothing I insisted onessentiality of the cultural revolution character of the '68 protest as a vehicle of a new totalizing system of knowledge that was suddenly replaced, antithetical and manifest to the previous one.
The nullifying thought of Sartre and the new philosophers – which clearly constituted thearché within which the entire alleged pedagogical renewal of the student protest moved - it was very current in 1968, but it was nothing other than the latest updated version of that postmodern philosophy from Kant onwards, starting from the French Revolution, had closed the doors of supernatural life to man, he had reduced religion to a personal matter at best and reduced the Church in its values ​​and universal teaching.
But for the Church – which, must be remembered, carries out its educational action both in civil society schools through agreements reached with the States, both directly through Catholic schools – that skeptical philosophical thought, an atheist and agnostic was to be considered an overall less insidious danger, because external, compared to modernism, which instead smoldered inside and insinuated itself both into the teaching method of Catholic teachers and into the way of learning of Catholic disciples, future teaching class. Read More