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Show CHURCH AND EDUCATION Prominent Catholics Talk for Catholic Education at Big Meeting in Milwaukee. Milwau-kee. About 400 prominent Catholic educators are attending the annual convention of the Catholic Educational association of the United States which opened at Marquete university last Tuesday! Archbishop Messmer, in welcoming the educators, said that Catholic education is not private education; educa-tion; its schools arc public in as true a sense as any schools in the land. The church, Jie said, is the great educator, ami he added that true education is not merely instruction instruc-tion of the mind, but above all the training of th heart and will and the forming of habits in the development de-velopment of character. "Catholic education," said i lie archbishop, "is the. only one that will give us the most perfect system and the most perfect development." Emphasizing the need of unity, the archbishop said: "In the unity and concent ral ion of Catholic education ed-ucation lies its power." Archbishop Quigley of Chicago said: "Our system must be Catholic, not at all a. compromise with any other system; exclusively and thoroughly Catholic. Catholic education is necessary neces-sary for the preservation of the church and for the preservation of the nation itself. We must strive to keep it aloof from the interference of outside systems. It is the only Christian education in the Avorld, and it is the Catholic system of education that is going to save the world. We must save it from contamination; we must not allow interference interfer-ence by legislation." |