Seattle University - Aegis Yearbook (Seattle, WA)

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I Ik educational system of Seattle college and the course of studies are substantially the same as in all other colleges of tin Society of Jesus. file ideal of the Jesuit system of training is that education is a developing, through discipline, of the mental and moral powers of the student. It is not therefore mere instruction or acquisition of knowledge, though these two necessarily accompany any right system of education. . . . Learning is the instrument of education, not its end. Its end is culture and mental and moral development, to impart that accuracy of thought and breadth of view which must ever be tin foundation as well of more advanced scholarship as of eminence in the professions and other stations of life. ... It is not possible to (ill the student's mind with all the information necessary for a lifetime, but it is presumed that a conscientious application to the curriculum will impart a considerable amount of positive knowledge in the major fields of learning; that the student will have an intelligent sympathy with progress and intellectual activity generally and he saved from narrowness and superficiality. . . . The system does not foster the illusion that education has a morally elevating influence in human life. While conceding the effects of education in energizing and refining the imagination, taste, understanding and the powers of observation, it has always been held that religion alone can have any real moral efficacy. Hence, in its moral and religious training the college aims at building the conscience of its students for the right fulfillment of their civil, social and religious duties. There is insistence on the cultivation of the Christian virtues which operate for this fulfillment: and.