Cathedral High School - Spires Yearbook (New York, NY)

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From the first dame schools established in colonial times to the complex academic system of today, freedom of education has been thc keynote of knowledge in America. By discarding standards that measured the quality and extent of education according to a pupils social grade and family resources. the United States from her early days became the most forward-looking of all the countries in the world. Through the foresight of such men as Benjamin Franklin, Horace Mann and llenry Barnard the conception of educational function and service widened. S0 that by the twentieth century America had reached an enviable peak in the field of learning. However, the twentieth century brought with it marked changes in American social and economic life which diminished the in- fluence of the home on youth and increased the responsibility of the school. Teachers became as much social guides to their charges as they are instructors of knowledge. With the necessity of pre- paring youth for life confronting them, educators came to recog- nize something which the Catholic Church has been teaching- that moral training is the true and first aim of education. The Church can be justly proud of the advancement of Catholic erudition in America. From the first one-room school established by Mother Elizabeth Seton in Maryland. the Catholic educational system has advanced tremendously. Today it numbers among its institutions in America countless grammar schools, high schools. and colleges. But as the light of Catholic education continues. the darkness of Communism covers many parts of Europe and most of Asia. This Communism of anti-Christ has injected itself with menacing tenacity into the Eastern world and even now threatens the VVest- ern hemisphere. In the unwilling or unwitting countries that have succumbed to Communism an intense system is in effect to indoctrinate youth with communist principles. Our aim in formulating this book. then. is to contrast the educa- tional system here in the United States with education as it exists in these unfortunate countries.

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