"[This vocation of the teacher demands]...a constant readiness to accept new ideas and to adapt the old."
(Declaration on Christian Education, 1965, #5)

"[Teachers should be]...skilled in the art of education in accordance with the discoveries of modern times."
(Declaration on Christian Education, 1965, #8

"The search for new forms of schooling should therefore continue...one must be open to the possibility that the school of the future, including the Catholic school, will in many ways be very different from the school of the past."
(To Teach as Jesus Did, 1972, #124)

"Catholic schools have the capacity and freedom to experiment. Administrators and teachers should therefore cooperate with parents in designing experimental models or pilot programs to improve educational standards and results."
(To Teach as Jesus Did, 1972, #125)

"Thus it [the Christian community] must strive not only to teach the young but to learn from them and to see its own institutions through their eyes and to make prudent changes which this insight may suggest." (To Teach as Jesus Did, 1972, #130)

"To understand the real nature of the Catholic school one cannot divorce it from wider modern problems concerning schools in general." (The Catholic School, 1977, #24)

"A close examination of the various definitions of school and of new educational trends at every level, leads one to formulate the concept of school as a place of integral formation by means of a systematic and critical assimilation of culture."
(The Catholic School, 1977, #26)

"Cooperative teaching which cuts across the lines of particular disciplines, interdisciplinary curricula, team teaching, and the like help to foster these goals of Catholic teaching." (Sharing the Light of Faith, 1979, #232)

"Even so, educators must realize that poor teaching, resulting from insufficient preparation of classes or outdated pedagogical methods, is going to hinder them severely in their call to contribute to an integral formation of the students."
(Lay Catholics in Schools: Witnesses to Faith, 1982, #27)

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