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Show . 4 Head and Heart Education. Police Commissioner McAdoo of Xew York remarks re-marks that "a great number of intellectual looking look-ing faces are ui the Rogues' Gallery," a fact illustrating il-lustrating and emphasizing the necessity of our educational system including culture for the heart as well as the head, in which connection the commissioner com-missioner took occasion to say a word of praise for the schools of the Christian Brothers, who, he said, "give a practical education in both the head and the heart, thus fitting the boy for the active, sharp competition of life and the conditions of modern civilization." For having said so much. Mr. McAdoo was charged with having "attacked the publie schools."' Of course he did nothing of the kind. Xevertheless, the fact remains that the heart education, which means religious instruction and training, is not the programme of the public schools. There is no good reason, however, why those schools in which it is a feature should not receive aid from the public funds. The State, it is true, has no religion as such, and therefore, it will be said, has no obligations obliga-tions in the matter of heart education, its sole duty as to education having to do with the head. But this the head culture is given in the Christian Chris-tian Brothers and the other parochial schools. Then why should not the State pay for it. being a commodity it requires. Why not buy what it needs in "head education" from the religious schools as well as from the public schools ,the quality qual-ity of the article as supplied by the former being as good as that supplied by the latter Why should the three R's, as given in a Catholic school, not be paid for out of the public funds as well as the same given in a public school? In other countries Canada, for example, and England it is so; that i9, parochial or "voluntary" schools are paid by State in recpect to the secular instruction they give. In those schools the State gets an article ar-ticle it requires of the quality it requires, namely, head training for boys and girls up to the State standard, and it pays for no more. This is not "paying for religion" any more than a person would be paying for religion by buying a secular book say a grammar or a geography in a store in which Catholic prayer books and catechisms were sold. Why, then, the objection to State support of parochial school in respect to the secular education educa-tion given? Can any one tell a reason, except prejudice against and antipathy toward the Catholic Cath-olic church the same reason which the Protestant minority in Ireland have for opposing the concession conces-sion to the Catholic majority of facilities in the Slyil LJ me vainuuvj i""J"'"J - matter of university education such as the Protestants Pro-testants themselves possess? Freeman's Journal. |