CATHOLIC EDUCATION IN ENGLAND.
In » Pastoral Letter for the Feast of the Sacied Heart, the Archbishop of Westminster remarks as follows on Catholic Education :—: — There can fee no education without teachers, and no efficient education without trained teachers ; and there can be no sound Catholic education without teachers first trained and formed in Catholic faith and in Catholic piety. It is to this work that the Catholic Poor School Committee devotes its chief care ; and it is for the Poor School Committee that your contributions are now asked. Since the year 1854, St. Mary's Training College at Brook-green, Hammersmith, has sent out 341 trained and certificated masters. The number of students now in the College is 54. The Training School of Notre Dame, Liverpool, for Bchool-mistre.eei, contained in February 120 students.
The efficiency of our Catholic education in the last twenty years has been raised from a condition which we hare no disposition to describe, to a grade at which we can fairly compete with any primary schools in the kiagdom. If in the higher standards we are surpassed, it is readily to be explained by considering the age at whioh our children cease to attend school, and the social condition of children in other schools around us ; but in the lower standards our schools at least bear comparison with any, in order, discipline, regularity of attendance, and accurate knowledge of' what they hare learned. Inasmuch as the lower standards are the foundation of the whole work of educating and forming the mind and character of the child, we may ■ay with confidence that in this our schools will bear comparison with ns. .T We ask you, then, very earnestly to contribute for this most -vital work, on which the whole efficiency of our Catholic education must depend. We need a great multiplication of well- trained teachers, sound in faith, and exemplary in piety. Every such teacher forms the future heads of Catholic homes ; and the well-being, therefore, of our whole Catholic society rests upon the welfare and efficiency of our schools. It must also be borne in mind that we are at this time threatened by the competition of schools in which no Catholic truth, no Christian doctrine can be taught. They are raised to the highest efficiency to which the public money can lift them. Unless our schools can afford a sound, solid, and sufficient secular instruction, new and dangerous temptations will spring up for Catholic parents; and new dangers, fatal, it maybe, to faith and morals, will surround our children.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/periodicals/NZT18741121.2.14
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
New Zealand Tablet, Volume II, Issue 82, 21 November 1874, Page 9
Word count
Tapeke kupu
423CATHOLIC EDUCATION IN ENGLAND. New Zealand Tablet, Volume II, Issue 82, 21 November 1874, Page 9
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
See our copyright guide for information on how you may use this title.