The sun., 1919-08-03
What Is Education?

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ins into the mind principles of art science morals
religion and behavior" ITO educate" he says Gin the
arts is important; in religion is Indispensable"
No will deny that the intellect of youth should
be developed and that they should be made acquainted with
the knowledge that will fit them for the world
science and business Above all is important that
youth be drilled in the knowledge of beloved country
and the who framed her laws and defended her rights
and claims The Catholic Church has been the
ing mother and munfcen patroness OF secular education
Nearly all the great universities of Europe founded
and endowed by the Catholic Church The famous universe
ties of Oxford Cambridge Paris Padua and Bologna
their existence socude From the sixth
the sixteenth century she abored with unrng zeal in esab
fishing throughout Europe free schools for the education of
the Ignorance, Pope Benedict XIV sis the
of all evil above all among the working classes
But secular knowledge alone sufficient along with
should also religious training Indeed religious know
edge far above human sciences the soul above the
body heaven above the earth and eternity above time
1t not sufficient to know how to read and WRITE to
derstand the rudments of grammar and arithmetic An edu
cation that seeks to ns knowledge of kings and presidents
and takes account of the King of Kings that determines
mathematical nicely the motions of the earth and
CARDS not eternity that treats of human problems and ignores
the great problem of e the origin and destiny Of little
deserves the Says Guizot eminent Protestant
writer of France In order to make popular education
truly good and socially useful it must be fundamentally
Ggious.'
indeed soul to die with the body, if had
future existence beyond the grave if had account
to render to God for actions might easily dis
morality would be fruitful of temporal blessings for
the apostle teaches Pey profitable to all things hav
ing promise of the life that and of that which is to
come" q Tim. w. 81
But God has given heart we'll as head. Why,
them improve the and neglect the other? Improve the
mind you WILL by secular education but by religious train
ing shape and mould the heart to virtue and morality Only
by good religious education know and fulfill the
duties he God his Creator and Maker By dvorcng
the religious and secular education very shallow and rag
mentary knowledge is impaired which in the long will
prove instead of blessing:
The experience of past conclusvely that
very great illusion to suppose that intellectual deve
opment is sufficient of itself to make vruous men, that
the moral status of people to be estimated by the wide
spread diffusion of purely secular knowledge
When the Roman Empire had reached the highest de-
gree of mental culture it sunk in the lowest depths of
vice and corruption
The Persian Empire, according to the testimony of Plato
persisted account of vicious education of its princes While
their minds filled with knowledge they guided by
religious influences The voice of conscience drowned
amid the and captivating cries of passion and
they monsters of lust rapne and oppression
erned by no law the instincts of their brutal nature
fear statistics would prove that in the United States
does not recede in proportion public education ad
Every day tell of crimes perperated
for the most part not by unletered criminals but by d
vduas of consummate address and skill that betray well
disciplined mind uncontrolled by religion and morality.
Far be from to question the sincerity underrate
the Zeal of those who the patrons of purely secular edu
cation The complaint have to find that the system which
they espouse does not go far enough.
With us, want children to receive education
which will make them not only learned but pious We
want them to be not only polished members of society," but