Maur Hill High School - Maurite Yearbook (Atchison, KS)

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A D M I N I S T R A T I O N What Is Education? That conception of education which makes the sole object of learning the mere aquisition of inform- ation and facts on a large number of topics by means of some activity program doesn't quite add up. Of what value is the acquiring of a large number of facts and figures if you cannot think about them intelli- gently? A true education must consist primarily of a training of the mind to think, and with this solid foundation the student can intelligently acquire the various facts and figures which he needs. In preparing the young man for setting out on the Pilgrimage of Life the Benedictine Fathers en- courage and assist the student in the adoption of the moral habits which give him a sound foundation for the future. Cardinal Newman lists these habits as diligence, assiduity, regularity, dispatch, and per- severing application. He goes on to state that these are the direct conditions for the acquisition of a true education. At Maur Hill those qualities are instilled in the student not only by the guiding influ- ence of the faculty but by the example of their Christ-like lives. If the student co-operates with the faculty the result is the creation of a good, stalwart, Catholic man.

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Father Anthony Reilman, O. S. B. Principal Handing out advice Keeping things going