Arizona republican., 1893-10-19
THE SCHOOLS.
Splendid Showing by
Catholic Institutions.
Educational Exhibit at
the Worlds Fair.
The Public and the Catholic
Schools Compared.
Public Schools Show Lack of Thor
oughness In Their Work-Cath-
olics Greatly Superior.

The following is translation of an
article that was contributed by a nom
Catholic gentleman to German paper
of Chicago, the Staats Zeitung. 1t
shows how our schools and educational
exhibit appear to other eyes:
Despite the danger of being condemn
ed, sentenced, and, to say the least.
burned in effigy by the little red
school-house" fanatics, we declare, and
every right-minded, non-p partisan, and
unprejudlced person must acknowledge,
that we are right, and will confirm our
views. Compared with the exposition
of the Catholic training and educational
institutions the exhibit of our national
public schools scarcely deserves to be
noticed. The Catholic school teachers
have laid open to our view picture
demonstrating the magnitude of the
Catholic school system, its working,
it's effects, and the achieved results of
the various institutions, SO iar-reach-
ing, so instructive and SO ably lllustrat-
ing its high educational character as to
discourage and disappoint the partisans
of the American public schools, when
they view their miserable, monotonous
and f1imsy exhibit.
Americans are justly proud of the
institution founded by their ferefa hers,
the "free and public schools" They
regard those schools as the bulwark of
American republican liberty, as the
great, the genuine Democratic institu-
tion that knows neither rich nor poor,
nor religion nor race, nor color, but
gives gratuitously to each and to all,
whether born on American soil or in a
foreign country, a common school
education"
Petted by the state, raised up as an
idol by catering politicians, regarded as
something sa ,red and moline tan
gere," furnished with all that money
can procure-beautiful buildings, airy
class-rooms, apparatus, methods, teach
ers enjoying fine salary-these Ameri-
can schools, the pride of the country,
should they not have taken advantage
of the presence of the Assem- bled teach
ers and pedagogues of the world and of
an opportunity seized by every country
OF the globe to exhibit their work, to
prove to their admirers their excellence
which they boast of in theory, but do
not show in practice?
They do not, we say, and we ask,
could they have done it?
What would those chatter boxes,
those textbook Eteachers, those lesson
hearers, with the curly locks, chewing
''tutti-frutti," decorated with stylish
hat, with no deeper thought than that
of the next ice cream party; those de-
fective patterns of humanity who are
running our public schools, what could
they exhibit? Just that which was to
be expected; models of buildings, OF
their photographs, methods and means
bought by the state at heavy expense
but not the results of the schools, not
the proofs of education. These are
missing in the exhibit of the public
schools. The kindergarten. and the
training schools only are praiseworthy
exceptions.
The weakness OF the public schools
shows all the more forcibly the strength
Of the Catholic educational institutions
at the exposition. Instead OF beautiful
building models and costly methods
they have exhibited the practical re-
suits of their schools. And these are
great results.
All honor to the men and women,
who, without opinion, have built those
schools; all honor, we say, to the teach
ers who, not enticed by salary, are
educators from principle and not from
greed.
The Catholic educational exhibit
situated in the southeastern wing of the
gallery of the Industrial Building, is, i
any thing, collective exhibit, grea'
object lesson.
To those, who through religious fana
ticism, ignorance, or pre- udice, have
judged unfavorably of tie parochia
schools, fine opportunitypresen it
self to learn their true Character anc
worth, and to correct the false ideas
| frequently put forward.
These Catholic institutions impair
daily religious instructions to theil
pupils, without neglectins any of tht
secular branches of knowledge. They
teach everything in the program 0
studies of the public schools, and be
sides this many specialties hat tend tC
the higher culture of the hild. The7
teach everything except gymnastics
and we say it with regret. They teact
the modern languages--Gernan, French
they teach the classics-Latin anc
Greek they teach--mark well, yol
friend of the public schoob-penman
ship, ornamental and linz drawing
technical drawing; they tach model
ing. music and singing; thg teach tn,
natural sciences; they give Instruction.
IN manual training; they each philo
sophy, physiology. hygien, and gen
erai antrhopology; they tech how t,
cook, to bake, to knit, t sew; the.
teach all so-called fads, and besides th'
!. elementary branches, the three "R's'
so thoroughly, SO well, th& their ex
hibits in these branches also put t'