SCHOOLDAY MEMORIES.

New Zealand Tablet, 27 April 1922, Page 23

SCHOOLDAY MEMORIES.

TO TSH EDITOR. Sir,—Your issue of March 16 contains a notice of a Recently published book, School day Memories Will you allow me, whilst thanking you very sincerely for your kind end encouraging remarks, to correct a perhaps natural misconception. I am proud to acknowledge my indebtedness to the Dominican Order for my education during six years of my childhood, for many kindnesses,, and for friendships which are amongst my happiest recollections. But a child does not develop much power of intelligent appreciation at ten years of age, and I have not since that age been a pupil at St. Dominic’s. The five years which form the subject of the “Memories” were spent at the Convent of the Sacred Heart, Timaru; and the characteristic customs and traditions referred to in the text have been readily recognised by past pupils of that institution. As has been truly said by Rev. Mother Stuart, the late Mother General of the Society of the Sacred Heart: “this manner of education (that of her own Order) is . . . a living spirit with a way of life of its own. . , At the same time we know well that it is not the only excellent system of education, and, moreover, that it is not suited to all places nor to all natures . , . within the Catholic Church, there may be various lines and different systems of education, each adapted and proportioned to its own end, equally good and acceptable.” Of the Sacred Heart manner of education I have written, with a very full and grateful heart. Of the Dominican manner of education, as applied to elder girls, I am not competent to write. — I am, etc., Mary C. Coulter. April 12.