A Splendid System

New Zealand Tablet, 15 November 1906, Page 22

A Splendid System

-i\'..' 'They do'^ things b'ettejL 1 "in 'the. GeiWaj^'F.^hfeiland. The German educational..', , system (says- 'the ' gtfted*i.Dr." O.'Rioj.-'dan in the. September issue of- the « Irish-Ecciesi- ' astical Record ') • as .'-denominational. -< TKeT**' Catholics ' have their own schools.^ The tither^denoniinatipris'ha'Ve .theirs;, 'Wiiere.'a community happeps. to be,fa-,mixed;qiie, -and^^he - number, is tpb."-; small .for- a separate"; school, *\ th E n a one*. ls" fotmed/ but careful '^nd^adequate provision/ is made 'fo^r; 'the" dogmatic reiigious^teacßirfg of :,the I< .minprity7 j by ;T membeis of , theft f own l ,;V' ; \^d " ; whe,i>e ;' such a school „ requires' the.; services', of- ?;two teachers; .care-lisT taken to provide that "one of^the'J-tea-■chers ? shall -be,--' if - possible,-; of. the rbligion ol of"- "the qualities ..which : go" .to 'inalce 'the Jgoo'd - citizen,- .and t ter and- conduct^ are rinqul,c^ted._.not. alone on civic.mbtives, butralsp-on-'thoseTof teligion>?; s Recently (says ik& * S.-II? Revie^;') 'when, the ' chairman of ° the^Bos'tori. J^chbor Obmmittee^(Mr~ : "James. S J;. S,|prrow)l was^ travelliiigLin' Europe, the.tfact thatrimpresseU.Jiim most was the -surprising, commercial . "pro- , ,-gressiKrf r-G-ermany. <j This progress '^adds'Wr- Briston contemporary) « he a*tributes c td ! the "eseSllent' "systeia 'of education ' in that country. Mr.' St'orrow said :' *' She not only surpasses f in higher education, but in the -wonderful development; _ ot her industrial and commercial trarindng schools she : is rapidly establishing her commercial'supremacy .over "Europe".' .''And ' Csayls.!'the'':S.H. „. Revjevv ,'),.« this splendid , system, of education/- ,',Which has,, placed Germany in the forefront of the nations 'is -not, be- it remembered, a- secular' -systeifi. -*rt is,- a system wjjich recognises .God. , Ifc.is'a system''which : is fair to Catholics, Protestants', 'and Jews.'