Thibodaux commercial journal. (Thibodaux, Lafourche Parish, La.) 191?-1959, 1920-11-06
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mere Is SOMeCHlHS NelLutI LOutoldLaA
Catholics said, and the local brie
onuuaSillGSsaiRnsl topics, might
Still pufs9s fifs1 e6pation, give an
swer, and place whatever interpreta
ton his venom and convenience may
dictate, on the following for the edifi-
cation of the uniformed, and to demon
ate that such are ''Topics of the
Day'', Rev. Charles W. Meyers, (Coh-
vert Protestant Minister):-
"All true creditors, both Catholic
and Protestant, know that no system
of education is complete that leaves
out moral and religious training; and
no Catholic has ever criticised the .pu-
bic schools on this point more than
many leading Protestant scholars have
done. ............ ........ =.
Woodrow Wilson, while President
of Princeton) said:
"We all know that the children Of
the last two decades in our schools
have not been educated. With all our
training, we have trained nobody. With
all of our instructing, we have instruc-
ted nobody" I'm the face of this state
ment, twice elected President of the
United States)
Prof. C. H. Henderson, a leading
educator, says:
"Judged by their fruits, the public
1ools of America have not been sue
cessful, because they have failed 20
ay the foundations in the most pro-
opnd region of the human spirits
eligion.H
Dir. Hirsch, Jewish Rabbi says:
"The best minds of the nation nov
agree that there must be some systar1
Of moral training in the ~
bic schools. The Catholic Church
correct in its insistence that odu"e
tion must be more than theSnerc &C
QUESTION of knowledge."
The late President Harper of Chic
go University says:
at is difficult to foretell the outcome
of another fifty years of our education
al system, which trains the mind only
+. bapt for the most part leaves the moral
side untouched. "To which the Brook
lyn Eagle adds: "Our whole machinery
Of education, from the Kindergarten ub
! to the University, is perilously weak
pit this point"
A'Literary Digest" Oct 80, 1920 Page ,
4o:-
''Hampering restrictions that per-
NIT the child to be taught geography
but not about the God who made the
earth; botany but not about the God
wI,S clothed the flower; physiology,
7 ~ not about the God who built the
ssn; history, but not about the divine
violence in human affairs, writes
Judge C. T. Grain, of the Court of Gen
eral Sessions, New York, believes It
perfectly possibly, to summarize tbs
Presbyterian Continent) "to arrange
for religious teaching in the publis
school which shall not outrage any pa.
rents conviction, and which shall give,
as he says, equal and ample protection
to Jew and Gentille."
"The New York Board of Education
offered to give a halliday week to re
ligious instruction in public schools to
be conducted by the various sects and
denominations; but divided Protes-
tantism found itself, as a Reformed
Church editor admitted "shamefully
nprepared and utterly unequal to the
task. Since then however, the subject
of religious training, by whatever
agency, has received further impe-
US, and is being broached in many
religious Journals as one of the ques-
ti0ns Of the hour-(topics of The day(.
These are recent utterances. they
speak for themselves. There are hun.
dreds of others from the mostbrilliani
minds, tht "brainest men" of the coun-
try, corroborating recent utteraHces, {
for which those not fully informed b
might condemn others. Vice President h
Marshall, Taft, Bird S. Coler, Roose- v
yelt, Secretary Colby, subscribe to P
such doctrines. f
We are sure no honest individual, as
are those above quoted, would for
moment be deferred by criticism cf
their words or dignity criticism With
attention, nor need any have apollo
logy or excuse to make, but as honest
and sincere individuals, conversant
with the times, unhampered by bigo-
tory, meaness, and prejudice, informed
!. beyond their respective communities.
are willing to stand by what they here
say.
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