Social Workers and Workers

The training of social workers
enables them to help people
to adjust themselves
to the existing environment.
The training of social workers
does not enable them
to help people
to change the environment.
Social workers
must become social-minded
before they can be critics
of the existing environment
and free creative agents of
the new environment. In
Houses of Hospitality social
workers can\acquire that art
of human contacts and that
social-mindedness or
understanding of social
forces
which will make them critical
of the existing environment
and the free creative agents
of a new environment. (p74)

Peter Maurin,

Catholic Radicalism:

Phrased Essays for the Green Revolution

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fd/Catholic_Radicalism-_Phrased_Essays_For_The_Green_Revolution.pdf

See INTRODUCTION by Dorothy Day,

New York,

Feast of SS. Peter and Paul,

June 29, 1949