The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1956-09-07

the nations children other millions bent upon college or
early October The goddess Education lofty
the Pon Asnorum holding her torch ueed with neon and
summonng the teemng teens There are some who equae
sweet educational word the goddess with Liberty Enlghening
the World and believe that is really She who holds the lamp
beside the golden door.
Some day the goddess Education going to have her ere
denals rexamned She has held position for generations
by sheer force of radtion-a thing she affects to despe
and has consistently refused manifest schedule of merits
votaries units credits,
semeserhours degrees neglected plain
her aims and She has failed to make honest
report accomplishment coyly evaded
all definiteness of promise.
demands of Education upon the interest purse Of
modern peoples the general and unquesioned
tion that education Thing go school, take
up course of study is in itself by general to per-
form valuable and vruous action Mind you the
thing considered good and merioriou matter what the
study day people going notice the blindness Of
this attitude and then Education will have much needed
assessment
Ask any of the millions citizens who praise Education
define the object of their praise Ask the man in the or
professional may be find
that clear available Do suppose that Education
is training? Say So and you will be called an by
leading philosophers of education Do you hnk that Ed
cation of character Development Say that and
hornets that doubt deny there any such thing
character there be- that there is knowing
the direction of its true development
We speaking here to be of Education such.
speaking of technical training who trains
as bookkeeper or machnist or chemist acquiring
skill k when he has acquired these he trained
necessarily talking professional
training such that required make lawyer
physician surgeon professor of that profession
ally trained people not necessarily Educated people
The person who goes to school for technical or
training bent acquiring what will him live
ing satisfy interest he is not seeking
Education For Education not mere training this admitted
nay ceaseessIy proclaimed all educationas
is not educated when he has acquired the knowledge that
abes him to living he is only educated when he has
to is q
has learned know the meaning of human existence until ne
knows what life is for until he of what to be done
to bring life to its true goal 81
In the vague view of Education entertained by all who
bindy worship it, there the entirely notion that
schooed in college university not only fitted
for higher wages or larger fame than the commonay of his
fellows but that he is wiser and better than the
schooed horde This amtou mistake of confoundng
training with Education is owing to the common romantic
educational college university
in golden haze with academic fitting about
wings put aside worship Educa
abstract people in the light of daily
experience well enough that the simplest man
often the noble and the degrees sometimes
the least admirable. s
blandy college university
convinced that doing we'll and giving the people
deserved Opportunity We to question the quaica
ons of those who make that Opportunity the means OF
destroying their pupils the view of life which alone
deserves the of Education Technical and professional
usually impaired with strong overtones and under
tones of what purpors to be Education and many college
has achieved bit of imitation parchment together with
weakened faith twisted notion of morality attitude OF
refusal towards the heavy responsibilities of normal and decent
life.
Surely Educaonnot the shapeless goddess bindy
shipped by monss the process of coming maturity in
three departments named here the scale of ascend
ing Importance physical mental moral And mental and moral
maturity regionno religion but the true religion
recognized actuazed in daily life Only the who has
attained such maturity is educated Only the process
aiding developing such maturity worthy of the
Education.
There a named Saul of Tarsus,-whom know
as ST. nonCahoc brethren usually mention
familary Pauwho even by modern standards
Educated He schooled he terate, he
splendid ogcan he knew his people and their history he
and leader And this educated sad II
know nothing Jesus Christ and
Him crucfied" is ultimate analysis the view
of life. Here is real Education