The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1905-07-29
CATHOLIC EDUCATION
AND ITS MANY PHASES
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these rules passed by the council began to be APP
piled, then radical change took place in our
schools Previous to that, as you all remember
the schools were what might be termed vast num-
Der of units each acting In It's earnest way, but
not in the most enlightened one. We will never
gain perfection In this world; we always In the
purgatlve way, aspiring to be perfect. With view
OF ascending to that perfect way if possible, it
suggested to the principals and pastors throughout
the country that they must unity their school sys
TENS; that their methods must be changed; that they
must under the surveillance of the bishops of
the country that In each school a representative of
the bishop should enter; that the manual for grad
ing the two sections of parochial schools-pri-
mary and grammar-should be adopted and scrupu-
lousy followed. When, after year or two it was
realized by those In charge of these schools and
responsible for them, that this was not a mere
spasmodic effort but determined, systematized
supervision that was going to last not for a year
or two but forever, the authorities and leaders in
these schools woke up, and instead of local COMPETE
tons amongst the various schools they entered into
magnificent competition of progress and advance
ment along the very lines that lay in their paths
and the result is seen today. We find that little
encouragement good even for the saints We
find that it was good for them to have the bishops
enter into the classes of the lowest grades and ex
anime them scrupuously we found it was good that
not only their efficiency, but likewise their def
cheney, should be known to the Ordinary of the
diocese The consequence was that our schools took
a turn for the better They have risen to level
that am constrained Ill saying they never could
have attained but for the legislative action of the
bishops OF the country. Today they stand equal to
the best, the majority of Them and many of them
are superior to the school outside our own We
lear no longer any murmuring from the faithful
no longer is there found amongst the clergy single
one to criticize or censure schools not because
we feel more plously inclined towards them because
conducted by religious, but for the very good reason
mat our schools have commanded that universal
esteem.
"An evidence-perhaps the most practical evil
dence OF the progress thus made-is found in this
one TACT speak of own diocesek Some three
years ago, IN the beginning of my administration
OF this diocese, L sat down one evening and wrote
a number of letters-twenty or more-to a num
Der OF pastors IN the city and country, where I
Deleyed Catholic schools should be and were not
L received answers from eleven of them. that at
once the work would be undertaken and last wear
eleven new schools were opened in this diocese The
people co-operated with the pastors immediately
had nothing to do but to make the suggestions:
those who could not conform with my wishes gave
satisfactory explanations. The following wear T
wrote another series of letters to pastors so situated
VINO hadn't schools-some twenty-seyen-and in re-
ply received fifteen promises to at once enter
upon the work of school building in various par
lshes, and this September fifteen new schools-some
able to accommodate twelve or fifteen hundred
children-will be opened in this diocese There was
never murmur on the part of the people-glad,
ciamoring for the Catholic school. And why? Be
cause they have attained to an excellence and ele-
vatlon to which the Baltimore council hoped to 4
BRING them and because they are the only safe
places to train children. How vast the sacrifices
made for the education of our children YEARLY in
this diocese fully 100000 of their hard-earned