Flourishing in our care – the quest of Catholic Schools – By Principal Luke Reed, Mt Maria College, Mitchelton QLD.
Education is what survives when that which has been learned is forgotten. This aphorism is attributed to B.F. Skinner, the renown social psychologist, who famously developed theories of behavioural science widely applied in fields of education and clinical therapy. All of us would recall the feeling of being in a class at some point, wondering how we would ever use that which we were studying, be it quadratic equations, the…