Central Catholic High School - Glen Echoes Yearbook (Allentown, PA)

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gl' lt is therefore as important to make no mistake in education as it is to make no mistake in the pursuit ot the last end with which the whole work of education is intimately and necessarily connected ln fact smce education consists essentially rn preparing man for what he must be and for what he must do here below in order to attain the sublime end for which he was created it is clear that there can be no true education which is not wholly directed to mans last end and that in the present order of Providence smce God has revealed Himself to us in the Person of His Only Begotten Son who alone is the way the truth and the life there can be no ideally perfect education which is not Christian education Excerpt from Encyclical ot His Holiness Pope Pius Xl December 3l l929 Christian Education Of Youth THlS lN BRIEF, lS THE PHILOSOPHY OF OUR CATHOLIC EDUCATlON