TF you were to ask a teacher "Why do you teach your pupils grammar, or for that matter, arithmetic, or geography or any of the subjects on the curriculum?" the answer to your question would depend upon who the teacher was, what was his concept of his pupils, and what end or purpose he had in view in teaching them. Plate taught his pupils so that they might become philosophers and thus be of service to the state. Quintillian, that they might become orators and thus serve the Roman Empire. 'The early Christians taught their youth that they might serve God in this world and be happy with Him forever' in the next.
And today in Russia the Soviets are teaching Marxian principles and efficiency to promote the material prosperity of the Soviet, while, in America, John Dewey aims at making his pupils socially efficient in a democracy.
supplies from British French sources. A ship marked for Quite obviously, then, the end in fects them by co-ordinating them with sabotage by the Ministry in London view in any system of education is the supernatural. He ennobles what finds it very difficult to get coal at dependent upon the view the educator is merely natural in life and secures any of these points. takes of the pupils to be educated. for it new strength in the material Aristotle held, as did the early Chris-and temporal order, no less than in Bunker Facilities tians, that the child is made up of the spiritual and eternal. Not only body and soul and is endowed with does this appear strikingly in the During the last War, the Allies free will; but his system of education lives of those Saints whom the Church made bunker facilities available only differed from that of the early Chris-has produced, in whom it perfectly to those neutral' ships making trips tians because he did not have the realizes the purpose of Christian edu-that were useful to the Allied cause. same idea of a soul es they. "Though cation, but perhaps more strikingly Shipowners could get coal only when in the course of Fistory differences still in the immense work which has they arranged two voyages out of of opinion have been held as to what been accomplished for the temporal every three to suit the wishes of the child should be taught, the at-well-being of men by missionaries of London. and Paris. For the third, titude of the Church in this matter the Gospel, who have brought and of the child's nature has never still bring to barbarous peoples the they could pick their own destination, provided it wasn't Germany. This changed. benefits of civilization together with the light of Faith.
System has not yet been revived. But
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