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

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 y tchnin id tra tion RT. REV. CUTHBERT McDONALD, O. S. B. President of Maur Hill School

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Introibo ad altare Dei. Ad Deum qui laetificat juventutem meam.

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It is the part of the wise man to know how to distinguish. To see, beneath the surfaces of things, the invisible skein that knits together all he may survey, to see life and see it whole, this also is a power only wise men hold. To help impart such wisdom is education's business. In modern education this age-old con- cept has been largely discarded in favor of a more myopic view that seldom sends the searcher to the core of things, but rather takes delightin the counterfeit hues of shadows that dazzle because seen out of focus. Facts and figures supersede values. Quality yields to quantity, and elective sub- jects supplant solids. Worse, little positive effort is offered to knit together the ac- cumulated mass of details. Thus is de- ranged the hierarchy of permanent values. This is a far cry from educators1 tra- ditional purpose, which the Maur Hill faculty still strives to foster. Here, no field of learning is scorned. All branches of knowledge are scanned in relation to their respective importance and focused in the light of their eternal worth. Amassing data becomes subordinate to learning how to think. This, then, is the role of our edu- cation, to impart that wisdom by which man will distinguish good from evil, the true from the false, beauty from ugliness, the substance from the shadow. 7