ABSTRACT
The legacy of Thomism in Catholic education persists today. Indeed, there is much in Catholic theology that depends on Thomistic terminology and there are still new scholarly resources and studies on the philosophy of Catholic education that continue to appear. Some view any attempt to renew a Thomist philosophy of education as a backward step and an obstacle to the Church's engagement with the contemporary world of education. The task of this chapter is to examine whether and how a philosopher-theologian from the Middle Ages can help in meeting the current demands of Catholic education and to show how this philosophy is open to development and that much of the criticism are simply misconceptions. Indeed, many of these critics suffer a strong historical amnesia with a partiality for false memories. Even scholars promoting the recent revival of Aristotelianism within theories of moral development and moral education often close their eyes to value that Aquinas added to those ideas.
