When I was in high school, there were defined standards we were expected to achieve. I don’t have it in front of me, but the school referred to it as the “Profile” or the Profile of the Grad at Grad.
From what I gather, the Profile still exists. I’m not sure how much if any the details of it have changed in 30+ years.
It was a vision: The Profile of the Jesuit High School Graduate at Graduation. They wanted us to have achieved those standards by the time we finished at Jesuit High School in Portland, Oregon.
I don’t know who exactly developed the Profile, but the standards were well-defined. Yet in retrospect, a bit cringey and borderline-modernist for my current tastes.
Modernism was condemned by Pope Pius X in the 1907 encyclical Pascendi Dominici gregis, calling it “the synthesis of all heresies.”
The major bullet-points were thus:
Open to Growth
Intellectually Competent
Religious
Loving
Committed to Doing Justice
When I attended Jesuit, and especially as the decades have gone on, the platitu…
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