...Culture is inseparable from education, since education in the widest sense of the word is what the anthropologists term “enculturation,” i.e., the process by which culture is handed on by the society and acquired by the individual.  Christopher Dawson, Crisis of Western Education

Catholic education culminates in handing on the rich Catholic treasury of thought and beauty.  The development of the student’s powers of thought, expression, imagination and wonder prepares him to receive and appreciate his cultural birthright.

Over 2000 years, the Catholic Church has encountered a dizzying variety of religions, philosophies, political systems, fine art, architecture, literature.  According to the Incarnational principle, she has discerned the good from the evil in each case, absorbing and transforming what is worthy.  The Church has used these talents to develop the deposit of faith received from her Lord, Jesus Christ.
           
As Pope Benedict has indicated, Providence chose the Hellenistic civilization as the first  home for the coming of the Incarnate Word and the early growth of the Church.  Schools today are right to introduce their students to the best in non-Western cultures.  Yet, the central importance of Greco-Roman culture to Christianithy must not be lost.

In the light of our experience with cultural pluralism, it is often said nowadays that the synthesis with Hellenism achieved in the early Church was a preliminary inculturation which ought not to be binding on other cultures. The latter are said to have the right to return to the simple message of the New Testament prior to that inculturation, in order to inculturate it anew in their own particular milieux. This thesis is not only false; it is coarse and lacking in precision. The New Testament was written in Greek and bears the imprint of the Greek spirit, which had already come to maturity as the Old Testament developed.   
(Benedict XVI, Lecture at the University of Regensburg, Sept. 2006.)