Resisting the temptation to construct a university of the good

"The worst temptation in the matter of education consists in dreaming of a school that would guarantee that its students do not later become 'bad [(méchants)]'.  It is to this temptation that the educators of recent decades have perhaps succumbed: [the temptation] to construct a school of the good [(une école du bien)]:  a good which is called [the] 'rights of man', tolerance, peace, solidarity, social and humanitarian action, listening to the other, sharing, engagement, respect, ecology, etc.
     "The raison d'être of the school is to teach the truth.  Now, according to the promise of Christ himself, 'The truth will make you free' (Jn 8:32).  Freedom [(La liberté)] is a risk.  It does not do away with the possibility of evil; on the contrary, it heightens [(exacerbe)] it, for it magnifies the possibilities of knowing and serving the true and supreme good who is God revealed in Jesus Christ.
     "If it is true that we must once again question the ways in which we have been habituated to do and to think, how to proceed?  How to escape from a habit of thought?  How to think and act in a manner more truly faithful to Christ?

     "Not, in my opinion, by continuing to do obeisance to the principle of the primacy of action that has dominated our world for many centuries under the double form of politics and economics.  Holy Scripture does not say, in effect, as Goethe:  'In the beginning was Action.'  It says:  'In the beginning was the Logos—le Verbe, la Parole.'  The word in question [here] is the eternal Word of God, [and] therefore a word that does not come from us and in response to which the appropriate attitude is [one of] attention [(l'ecoute)].

     "In seeking to re-found the school, then, we must, long before committing ourselves to the conception and inauguration of any new action, and before even beginning to reconstruct a thought, commit ourselves to listening to the Word of God incarnate in Christ."

     French mathematician and 2002 Fields Medalist Laurent Lafforgue, "Le Christ est la vérite, fondement d’un enseignement catholique," an address to the annual session of the Alliance des Directeurs et Directrices de l’Enseignement Chrétien, 19 November 2009, p. 4, translation mine.  (On the other hand, is not the good a matter of the truth?)