The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-09-19

along these lines does not make chem educated for
these animals better fitted to live with their
fellows than others who have not received that
training. Their training does not increase their
comforts does it change their physical appear
ance. The superior look which these trained ami
mails have others of their kind is due to the dill
igent grooming which they receive, and not to the
mental exercises which they undergo
Training is one of the attributes of education.
and it is one of the most valuable The training
which will teach the scholar to gather facts, assert
them and systematic them, is of great value. But
that training is not education.
The true education has far higher aim than the
mere accumulation of knowledge and facts. 1t aims
to teach children how to live in civilized state.
No matter how many and interesting facts are de-
veloped in other lines if education does not take
cognizance of mans social relations, there is gap
which cannot be bridged by all the training which
may be given Like the trained animals of the cir
Gus, the trained citizen may develop most vicious
tendencies if that training is not supplemented by
or founded upon some substantial basis than
knowledge of mans place in nature.
The privileges which one may enjoy and the OBJ
legations which one may owe to others of vital
these things and yet trained to high efficiency in
astronomy or botany or any other OF the sciences.
man may develop most dangerous tendencies In
deed, the records of criminaty among the we'll
trained and presumably welleducated are so con-
elusive of the failure of training to take the place
of education in the Christian virtues that it need be
no further discussed.
It may be contended that the study of the sci
ences alone will tend to broaden the individual and
that culture must inevitably result from that broad
ening Nobody with any claims to culture will dis
pue the value of scientific training, indeed, OF
any training Our contention is that training can
not alone fit to take his place IN the social
order. and that education, which is broader and
takes in the Christian virtues is far more likely to
produce that culture which qualities man for social
activity and usefulness to the state.
The modern theory that education should pro-
duce dollars and cents is so widely held that to
bat it is to strike at one of the cherished ideals of
the public school system. But no conceivable
amount of knowledge of value in the business
world can take the place of knowledge of God
The most expert horse trainers wholly unable
to impart knowledge of God to their animals
And education which does not take account of
God and mans relations with man and his God is
not worthy of better than training. And
training is not education, and knowledge of the
world and of the business and commercial activities
of man is not very good substiti for knowledge
of God. For a knowledge of Goo is the beginning
of wisdom and there is nothing profted to man if
he gain the whole world yet lose his own soul.
We look upon education as means to greater
end than the mere summing up of human wisdom.
We believe that a knowledge of God is of more
vice to man than knowledge of the movement of
the stars and that the problems of society will be
solved only when it is so generally understood