TRUE EDUCATION.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume LII, Issue 25, 8 July 1925, Page 61

TRUE EDUCATION.

The influence of the teachings of religion and morality upon the ideals and practice of civic duty is of great importance. Learning alone is not enough.' The educated man whose ; character is not sound, whose conscience is not well-instructed and whose conduct is not guided by religion or morality, is a danger to the state and his fellowmen. / The Catholic Church holds that religion cannot be separated • from morality, that morals rest upon religion and that without it character will ■ not be secure as against the attacks of selfishness and passion that there" ought to be religious instruction in the : schools, and accordingly her parish schools, academies, colleges, ' professional schools’ and universities, are lovingly maintained and supported, that by the purity of her teachings men may learn to serve God and country. •- • ' In every relation of life the kind of education which is fostered by the Church sheds its benign light by it a quality of ’ character is formed which gives peace and strength to its possessors, assurance of justice to fellowmen- arid of patriotic fidelity 1 to country. —Pierce Butler, Associate Justice, United States Supreme Court,