CONVENT EDUCATION.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume II, Issue 77, 17 October 1874, Page 9

CONVENT EDUCATION.

ISX- 7 T TT* education is a benefit to the population which S^Hl -^ °!ltß! ltB i dethe Church. Ye are mistaken PntTS- nn l >r tlg *? c P la S Jari9t9 ° f everything Catholic, the «SJ? , n f? . Rltua . h8l f ' h ™to **7 appreciable degree attempted to Bti Ito Kno l P , a CUl r field ' lhe IJrote <*ants and Anglicans have iS L!? ToT o C " home educafcion for their girls and the young refiSo,, V I a " OUS kiDds by persons who hare no o&T XT™ ! tO Dnoble tLeir arduous tas *- Catholics, on the K ft" d ' ha T e } m 'fi l ? an ? " establishments for young ladies" con1 U ; ted JH? y b»t religious women, and to this wo may add, without '21; of , contrad "*«>n, that Catholic girls are sent to convent Son \v \ greatef nurabers *«•« Protestant girls are to other S £?' i v° b a WOrd t0 Ba y a S aiQ9t theße last-named schools W«// lo °?» nor 11 h ™>™>any wish to speak against the system of aeP m ß th T* l Wh \ iadeed> When «™o«n»talceß do not forbid it, ul v ri aDa rQI m ° de Of educati on for Catholics and ProteswWl, M- 'i a I raatter Of fact> however, the number of cases in h,i# LTI - me educ t ution becomes impracticable, not only for boys w/mnftf' 18 "^ la J: ge ' aDdthe result has bee " the flourishing «¥?f ? S C °" Ve V fc e T chools which haa beea attacked in an article ia Frazer s Magazine.' It is a system of which we may well be proud, ahere are in England and Ireland a number of ladies devoted to the fheliZfil ' ? int , elli e e »-. refinement, and literary cultivation a SeSfww SPal'S Pal '- ? knowl c ed « e and training character, as well as in the power of winning confidence and affection, and leading on the young soul to the highest things both in the natural and supe! Scan rr Tf' ? th6y d ° nOt far BUr P aes - a "y tea^« T f!l f? MM u l3eW - ce re, c wifchiQ «-«e shores of the two islands, iheiruit of their labors, is that we have a high class of well-educated Clu.stian women more numerous in proportion to our own numbers thSS Bim8 i m °- aSS aiD ?" g An g licans and Protestants, who become in v»H *S hoUßewives and mothers, or the teachers of another genorain Z ?e \ &B S^wnesses or as religious teachers. The writer benZ t a AT Ul '^ n °J Wi , t ) 1 ? ut a Sueer> u P° n the "biquity which appears to belong to Irish religious women. He imVht have said the SSSJ* a grCe> of .^ D g lish wom en, and in both cases the fact is no I"' 8 tO n the "niyewahty of convent education ; but it is only half of the result for which tiiat education haa to be credited. The other half SriSf/nf Cat . lloll , c f aa "l'eßhave in so many cases a virtuous well-in-structed Christian lady at their head, among whose most cherished are the memories of her years of education within convent walls where some of her best friendships have been formed, and who would laugh heartily at the idea that she could not carry out the practical lessons whicli she received as a girl, just as well in the position of a happy wife and mother as if she had been called to dedicate her life to God alone as an inmate of the cloister. And we boubt whether there are any institutions in the land which are regarded generally with more loving gratitude by those who have passed through them than these convent schools.—' The Month '