The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1923-09-21
HE CALL of the MORT II
THE BELL-TOWER OF AMERICANISM
Nv p J. ORN

THE BELI-TOWER OF AMERICANISM
BY p. J. ORN
The principle education quite DID, yet the crystal
principle into the public school moderns Amer
Old Glory The Ancien the Medlevasts
Early Modernsts did not appreciate the value OF public
schools careful study educational Development we clearly
see that that appreciated the place and power
public school, It fact that it America that gave
to the world real conception OF free public educaon tne PUBIC
school is American creation.
Early Christian that properly be called formal
only who wished to enter the service
It strange that the scholars OF the MID
practically all within the church, yet the reason Tor
this the student of educational 1t
was the offered to the scholar quiet haven tor
thought investigation providing he kept within established
bounds the church there little appreciation
of learning the Middle Ages did not have free
dom of thought speech essential to The church
was ntoerant it's demands and would brook liberties OF
thought that concted in the least with the teach
ngs church. The scholar of the Middle Ages dared not
tell study investigation revealed it to him. when
the questioned the church and its teachings Thousands OF
the past hid the light truth beneath the
it was dangerous otherwise No estimate the loss
to humanity direct result of suppression OF TRUTH
The deed the church delt with Immediately and
without mercy Lucky indeed the courageous scholar VINO
regard the church teachings that did
sentenced by the ecclesiastical court to be burned
at the stack otherwise to be inhumanly destroyed
Through its monastery cathedral schools the church did
practically education to the Reformation Two
ORDERS the and the Domincans mendcant fria
the thirteenth century to control higher educaon
remained Catholic higher institutions of learning
veas Catholic church time through its schools did
nearly educan yet that does not proof
contention of the Papacy that there by right only one
authority entitled educate youth the essentials of knowledge
of has yielded its claim to the sole center
of all knowledge Therefore, find the Holy See denouncng
public school systems wherever they found The Roman
church the archeney of the public school and is doing all
things wreck public school systems Those who
love truly the public school other kind
of guard against sinister forces that
seek the destruction of the public schools.
With opening of the later Renaissance movement there
marked changes in formal education 1t during the
early the sixteenth century that attempts to estab
sh schools entirely outside of Papa control Germany and Eng
land remarkably affected by the humansc movement In
these countries schools established that
somewhat domination Germany Eng
the gmmerg lights of free public education which
brightly America today The Reformation brought
freedom thought made possible astounding strides
vead truth The church of Rome to fear truth ntel
gently expounded by scholars who free from the chains of
suppression Where the piercing light of truth eghten people,
superstition and false doctrines cannot prevail.
system public education founded in Germany
by which each village had school, The system quite
pete through the hghen Latin Schools the and the
unversitythe University of Tubngton This system have
to call the Wurebg system for duke of Wurttemberg
who took important in it's organization beginning in
The Saxoy pan similar organization adopted from
that of Meanchon 1880 and remained practically unchanged
until 1773 when compulsory attendance and wider curriculum
added such the schools of Protestant Germany
grew and developed until the Thirty Years War; In other
country of Europe find the public school, In Engandthe
education of youth nrusted family church until
far the nineteenth century, although England did
thing about public schools
From study of the development of the public school,
honest mind concusions The public school system
the handwork Potestanm the public school, the world
understands the institution today essentially American
though the idea European The public school grew with free
dom and bulwark of that freedom There be
freedom without the public school, The two nseparab
America nation lives the public functions
perpeuae the naenabe rights of mankind the institutions Of
democracy and solid phalanx against foreignism.
The Society of Jesus befoe referred to- formed in 1910
to- counterfeit the Reformation The Jesus members of the
Society of Jesus established schools where secular studies
included rigid curriculum The esuts nd are zealots
abored only the church through schools
absolutely controlled by the Pope The esutica schools taught
land still do each) only that which would
Rome, and continuously did they seek to justify the Holy
its creed practices and traditions The Jeuits sought
extension of learning from other point than that
the church Rome The Jesus
enemies of the public school, freedom of thought religion
What has been said of the Jesus and their schools
true regards the Institute of the Brethren of the Christian
Schools did the Catholic elementary what the
Jesuts did for the Catholic secondary schools. .>