Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1893-09-15
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The catholic arochia schooIs
Have Excellent Exnibits
Of Their W rlx
Ind Judged ~ + nenn II>lae;r
Educational syetena S
S.. Efficient.
The following article was pub
.lished about q week ago iii the llli-
znois Staates zietung, Of Chiuago,
which Rev. Alois Raster says is The
leading German paper in The United
States, paper devoted to free
Thought and as such surely a reliable
Judge in the matter in questiun.
He asks that it be published
giving us his reason wish to
Edispel prejudice against and
wrong notions about SO important
a matter. This ARTICLES u trals!,,-
ton from the. Gernansof the sraates
Zietung, as follows:
Despite the dslilge... Of ;.,eing co.-
demned, sentenced, aud, to s:,y the
least, burned in effigv by the LITTLE
red school-h house fanatics. we de-
clare, and every right-lninded, non
partisan, and unprecedented person
must acknowledge, that we are
right, and will confirm our views
Compared with the exposition OF
the Catholic training anlrducntional
institutions the exhibit OF our ma
tional public schools scarcely de-
serves to he noticed. The Catholic
school teachers have laid open to our
view a picture demonstrating the
magnitude of t he Gatho Tic school
systems, it's workings, It's effects, and
the achieved results Of the various
institutions, SO far-reaching, SO in
structiye, and so ably illustrating it's
high educational character as to dis
courage-a and disappoint thepartisans
of the American public schools, when
they view miserable, monoton-
Gus, and fimsy exhibit. ~
Americans arejustly prond of the in
situations founded by their forefath-
ers, the free land public schoo '"They
regard these schools as the bulwark
of American republican liberty, as
4, the great, the genuine democratic in
stitution that knows neither rich
nor poor, nor religion nor race, nor
Icolor, but gratuitously to each and
all. whether born on American soil
or in a foreign country, a common
school education. H., i
| Petted by the state. raised up as
an idol by catering politicians, re
garded as something sacred and a
noli me tangere, fur.:ished with all
that money can procurc-beautiful
buildings, airy class-rooms, appara-
tus, methods, teachers enjoying a
fine salary-these American schools
the pride Of the country, should they
not have taken advantage Of the
presence Of the assembled teachers
and pedagogues of the world and q
an opportunity seized by every
country Of the globe to exhibit theil
work, to prove to their admirers
their excellence, which they boast Of
in theory, but do not show in prstc
tice? They do not, we say, and WE
ask, could they have done it ?,
Just that which was to be ex
, pected; models OF buildings, or theil
photographs, methods and means
bought by the state at a heavy ex
? pense, but not the results of the
tschools, not the proofs Of education
These are missing in the exhibit o
the public schools. The Kindergar
ten andthe training schools only arr
praisewortly exceptions.
i. The weakness Of the public school.
shows all the more fOrcibly tue
strength OF the Catholic educationa
institutions at the exposition. In
; stead OF beautiful building models
and costly methods, they have ex
hibited the practical results OF thei
, schools. And these are great results
All honor to the men and womel
who, without state aid, or the en-
conragement afforded by public opin
ion, have built these schools; al
honor, we say, to the teachers who
not enticed by a salary, are educa
tors from principle and not from
greed. .sg&5 s.z
II The Catholic educational exhibit
situated in the southeastern wing O
the gallery Of the industrial building
: is, if anything, a collective exhibit
$ a great object lessor.
: To those, who through religious
: fanaticism, Ignorance, or prejudice
i have Judged nfavoraDly OF the pal
j ochial schools, a fine opportunit.
presents itself to learn their tru
! character and worth, and to correc
the false ideas frequently put fol
!. ward.
q These Cath olic institutions impa,
a daily religious instruction to thei
IS pupils, without neglecting any {
the secular branches szof knowledg,
They teach everything in the pre-
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