Stories From the Archives – 1943 Annual Report – Miss Sophie Borland
Our School has a wonderful history and many stories that our community are deeply connected to. As we celebrate our 125 Year Anniversary, each week we invite you to step back in time through some of the many stories that make up the life at St Catherine’s.
Stories from the archives – 1943 – Annual Report – Miss Sophie Borland
“Few of those who talk so glibly about the importance of education today have any real knowledge of the problem. If we are serious in affirming, as we so often do, that we are fighting to overthrow for all time the threat to our democratic liberties, we cannot overlook the fact that if democracy means anything at all, it means a recognition of individual rights on the one hand, and individual responsibilities on the other.
If we do not, in our schools, train citizens who can exercise those rights and assume those responsibilities, then we have utterly failed, and it is ludicrous to talk about securing democratic liberties. Education, therefore, becomes not merely a pressing problem, but the most pressing problem, and that upon which the solution of all our other problems depends.”
