[Pahuanui]

I once passed a Catholic girls' school boasting the slogan "Educating girls for success", which struck me as being a quite horribly inaccurate vision of what such an establishment should be doing!

Hmmm....

Maybe it's because I'm not Catholic (but I doubt it), but I don't see anything particularly wrong with that slogan.

You wouldn't want to see "Preparing girls for failure" or "Instilling in girls our tradition of mediocrity", right?

Or perhaps I've missed your point, in which case, sorry for having done so.

[american colleen]

LOL! "Preparing girls for failure" or "Instilling in girls our tradition of mediocrity"

What was missing from the school slogan was "...in the Catholic tradition"... - dropped long ago although Catholic schools were originally started for academic excellence AND to instill a good Catholic education, especially here in the USA which was a Protestant country.