THE TRUE MEANING OF CATHOLIC SCHOOL
Keywords:
Christian Education, Principles of Catholic Education Catholic SchoolAbstract
The aim of this article is to clarify the meaning of Catholic Education which will provide the real vision of Catholic education so that the catholic school administrators can use it as base for their management in school. The catholic church has promulgated the document of Gravissimum Educationis (Declaration on Christian Education) in 1965 The Church clearly sees the importance of education and would like to see those involved in Catholic Education possess the outlines to be used as their fundamental principles of being Catholic School so that upon this understanding of its meaning catholic school administrators can find a proper pattern to run their schools in line with the teaching of the Church.
References
Council Vatican II. (1965). Declaration on Christian Education Gravissimum Educationis. Vatican City.
Congregation for Catholic Education (1977), The Catholic School, Vatican City, Liberia Editrice Vaticana.
Congregation for Catholic Education. (1998). The Catholic School on the Threshold of the Third Millennium. Homebush, NSW: St Paul Publications.
National Educational Act B.E. 1999). Proclaimed in the Government Gazette. Volume 116, Section 74a. (In Thai).
Seri Pongpit. (2005). Catholic School in the next Decade. Burapa University Press. (in Thai)
