ABSTRACT
Gravissimum Educationis (1965) took as its main source the ruminations of St John XXIII who had just died, whose view it was that the purpose of a Christian education was to enable students to ‘breathe in a Christian atmosphere while they were learning; an atmosphere that would more and more permeate their hearts, strengthen their wills and set them up for life in the Kingdom of God’ (John XXIII, 1959).
