To understand the threat to music education posed by the seemingly minor change of mind, one needs to go back in time to the enactment of the Education Reform Act in 1988.

There is only one Education, and it has only one goal: the freedom of the mind. Anything that needs an adjective, be it civics education, or socialist education, or Christian education, or whatever-you-like education, is not education, and it has some different goal. The very existence of modified educations is testimony to the fact that their proponents cannot bring about what they want in a mind that is free. An education that cannot do its work in a free mind, and so must teach by homily and precept in the service of these feelings and attitudes and beliefs rather than those, is pure and unmistakable tyranny.

The pastor of a parish will typically have no education in the chant or in music, and he will hire the first music director who walks through the door.

Music had always been the handmaid of the Roman liturgy.

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When the truth is that there would be no great Western music, and certainly no decent choral repertoire, without the Catholic faith.