The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-02-13
CALLS SCHOOLS SECTARIAND
FATHER PARDOW CRITICISES
THE EDUCATION THEY GIVE,

saws the Truth Hasn't Been Told About
tho Inquisition, and Prejudice Flinders
Us From Thinking Correctly--Jesuit
Lecture to Catholics In Carnegie Hail
The Rev. William o Brien Pardow, s. d.
lectured on Education in the Twentieth
Century, in Carnegie Hall last night Tor
the benefit Of the st. Vincent de Paul 80
ciety He said in part:
There ia no subject to-day more DIS
cussed than this. When we consider thaV
Uncle Sam spends s2S5 900 900 for educa
ton. that he employs $1,000 teachers ana
that IS, 900 900 children are being taught
and trained into whose hands we must de-
post all that was left us by our forefathers.
II is no wonder. A business firm wouio
be more exacting in the expenditure OF
such a sum- why not consider this expen-
diture of our general business manager In
a like manner
You and are paying for this education
and we want to know what our children
are getting. -,
instruction and education are two dr.
ferent things. Education Is the root and
instruction the branch.
i went to the Chicago worlds fair TO
see the educational exhibit of Americas
universities. and found that the greatest
part Of the exhibit was taken up in photo
graphs of football teams. kc. The girls
showed embroidery and crochet work.
Education is the bringing out OF all that
is GOOD within us We have two great
faculties intellect and will: A true edu-
Gator must develop these. We must think
Our thinking is done by the public press
and we pay no more than penny or a
nickel for il Why, we don't pay as much
for our thinking as we do for our laundry
My charge against education to-day is
that 1t does not think correctly, What
binders us ia prejudice judging things be-
fore we know what we are talking about,
| We are doing this continually.
The question OF the Spanish lnquisition,
for instance, IS a fine sample OF wrong
thought and the expression of IL. PICK
up a book and read that the Spanish In
| QUESTION put 10000 people to death l
| learn that Spain was and is a Roman Catholic
country. | close my book and form my
own opinion Of the Spanish lnquisition'
and II was not Catholic my opinion
would become prejudice.
This II the uneducated way OF going
about It, The educated way is. who said
these things? A man by the name Lorento
! who after looking into the records OF the
/ Spanish Inquisition burned them that his
| account should be the only one II | were
] tDlD KlItR LOT my sell hOulu uhN VI
! caused this state of affairs. / would find
| all kinds. The Inquisition was the tribunal
! OF the day.
But would go further IN my education
and say wonder II England did anything
| like this. l would find that England In
thirty-eight years put to death q, 900 people
for theft, and in century 1900 people
were put to death in England, This is not
said to most people because England IL
Protestant and Spain is Catholic We are
not educating the youth II we do not give
them the truth.
What we want Is a Catholic enoyclo-
pedia in the English tongue to present
our side. And we are going TO have 1t soon
| The people OF to-day are clamoring for the
truth--the truth as it is. Take that word
seotarian. The cry that our public schools
are unsectarian il not the truth, because
a small sect says religion shall not be taught
in our schools. II is unfair 10 use this
word. The public schools are sectarian.
Auxiliary Bishop Cusack presided and the
band from the Mission Of the Immaculate
Conception PLAYED. The proceeds Of the
lecture will go 20 the country home Of the
society at Spring Valley.