St Thomas High School - Aquin Yearbook (Houston, TX)

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Chrnstuan educatlon alms it securung the Supreme Good God for those who are beung educated and the greatest possuble benefut for human soclety lt does thus effectlyely as posstble by co operatung wlth God In perfectung the Individual and through the unduyudual human soctety For education makes the flrst most powerful and lastlng nmpresslon o the duvldual for lrfe So t IS that Holy Qcruoture declares A young man according to his way even when he rs old will not depart from that way fProverb XXII 61 Our Lord has stressed the noblluty of the work of Chrlsttan educatnon by :dents fyvng l-ltmself wlth the chnldren who are to be educated saytng Whosoever shall recetve one such child as thus ln My Name recelveth Me CMark lX 36D and What greater work rs there than trarnrng the mrnd and forming the habits of the young? It must not be forgotten that the whole man IS the sublect of educatnon That means man whole and enture soul and body wtth all hrs powers natural and supernatural Man therefore who has fallen and become weakened by Grugunal Stn but redeemed by Christ and made a son of God The effects of Orlglnal Sun however remain In human nature These are malnly weakness of will and dns orderly rmpulses From early chlldhood these clrsorderly tendencies must be corrected and the wnll and the Intellect must be nurtured by Dnylne Grace Wlthout this careful supernatural tralnlng there can be no complete education To exclude the super natural from education and rely completely on the natural lS an error Any method that denles or ugnores the fact of Orlglnal Sun and relies on the unalded powers of human nature IS unsound We the students of St Thomas have as teachers the members of the Congre gatzon of St Bastl Their motto ts Teach me goodness dtsclpllne and knowledge Thus they do and un that order Our educatton rs therefore as an educatnon should be and for that reason we respectfully deducate the Aquun of T959 TO the Bastlnan Teacher I I .K . . . C . in k ' ' ' n in ' ' ' , I ' I : ,, C T I I St. John Chrysostorn considers Chrlstlan education the greatest of works, asking: I , I l I ' - , . 1 I I '

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M 'N-.- kr lillfmfg L, HNMWH I 4 YHIIM ll!! L 'W fl0Mmnn,' I ST BASIL The Patron of The Basrllan Teacher

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