The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1917-08-25
WHERE SHALL WE EDUCATE OUR BOYS AND
GIRLS?

The reopenng the scholastic brings up anew
the important question Of selecting the schools semnaries
colleges universities for the training and discipline
our egions of boys and girls This is matter of grave
both to parents and children for choice
of school may hinge the whole the future of
the young student whose mind in that plastic period
formation wherein is acutey responsible to the infu
ences of environment
few weeks ago Archbishop Prendergas Philadelphia
stated the of the Catholic school in exhaustive
thesis that might we'll be read those confronted
with the problem of making choice between religious
and secular educational institutions
In mastery elucidation of the subject points out
the need of putting the training of youth upon
religious basis and he has fortified his argument with
some startling citations from nonCahoc sources, such
as the Epscopaans the Luherans the Mennonites and
others. Among Protestant clergymen scholars
there is pronounced trend toward the Catholic position
on this matter for the evidence only that
the secular schools are sappng the vtals of Christianity
and producing brood of beings that
the subject of religion that they as
fish flesh good red herring" is an awful fact to
contemplate that about sixty millions of population have
no church connection whatever and have regular
methodcal participation in religious SERVICE that
say about onehaf the total population living the
sphere OF influence of organization for divine
recent of students in an east
ern university developed the fact forty per cent
of them declared they had belief personal Cod
while oneha the remainder replied that they were hold
ing the matter under advsement'
cannot be denied that this deadly neutrality
and even open hostility to religion is chargeable to the
system OF education that has provided place the
incubation of the precepts of the divine and the de-
velopment Of the moral and spiritual our being
In this vacant of the system have thrved
and grown the weeds of Indifference, agnoscism and
atheism, that they overspread limits and
threaten to choke the growth of the neghborng plants
The Catholic church which sensitivey adjusted to
detect and measure all disturbances in
the religious world long took register these ap
pang slides and apses in the educational pro-
ceeded to forefend itself against them 1t has now there
fore, reached point far in advance the separated
brethren who bewail the existing conditions but have
them in their incipiency.
The church recognizes that one of it's functions s IN
treat all nations and this function stress of
modern conditions has been broadened to include
the whole range of studies from the kindergarten to the
university Whether children of elementary
academic or collegiate age they be hand and
trained in the secular branches while concurrenty they
are grounded in the principles preceps and practices of
their religion would therefore, rash parent who
would permit his children to leave fair mountain of
culture which the church provides on the secular
moor, with all it's attendant pitfalls.
The several Catholic schools academies semnares and
colleges of the Northwest fully kept pace with their
sister institutions of the country Clergy and laty are
increasingly proud of the quality quantity of their
yearly output Judged and appraised by their achieve
ments both In the line of secular religious studies thew
are worthy OF the support and patronage those
and guardians who decline take any chances with the
faith and morals of their children wards during the
period Of education.