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EDITORIALS
Answers FereshetUn
Editor Sttecm&n: I hare read
with a large measure of Interest
the views' of the Rer. Martin rVre
ehetlan ; regarding ..; the -.. public,
school MIL I am" In thorough c
cord with, Mx. Fef eahetlao on tho
question, of ;the absolute separ
ation of church, end state. I have
been . .clot judent ot, history,
and, as such, hare found that
the ; onkn"of " church " and 7 state
has always been attended by rank
est i injustice and cruelty. -But
when It comes to5 the' question 'of
the public school bill,' the point
at Issue Is not whether the Cat
olio and Protest anit fought and
died side by aide on the fields of
France and Belgium. That is a
fact ao. evident, that we do not
need to forsake logic in order to
get Wushy about it. The sole
question at Issue is this: "Is edu
cation the function of the state
or. that of the church? Ecuador,
until recently has held that it is
the latter. ' As a result 9 0 per
cent of the population of that
land is illiterate. Argentine held
the same' View up to 1869. At
that trine aver 70 per cent of the
people of Argentine were illiter
ate. Then ' President Sarmiento
issued his great statement, as
famous - under the southern cross
as Uncoln'a declaration . that k
! State cannot ,be .half, slave and
half free is in the. north. It is
thls,T'Buiid public "schools' and
ybu will end 'revolutions." The
Schools, )n .the 'f ace of the de
termined opposition of the church,
Consequently illiter-
ln Argentine
.were ; built.
acy has decreased
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from rer 70tto leas than 50 per
cent, and revolutions are a thins
of the past.
What is the purpose of educa
tion? Xn his text on ".The .Educative
Process," Bagley says that edu
cation U training the Individual
to react to all future environment.
It is the fitting one to-use his
faculties correctly tn any circum
stances In which he is placed
' What is the idea of government
by the state?
It is that the state shall train
its youth in national Ideals td so
I fit them for citizenship that they
wiH function as citizens of the
highest and most intelligent and
capable type. ' We put money in
to' our schools in order to make
intelligent and useful citizens.
Whv 1 thAro antaennlsm tn th.i
public school? , I
In every Instance it Is because
there la a clash of conflicting
Ideals, Those -who establish sep
arate schools are not willing to
have their ' children taught the
ideals held by the American state:
Nothing else can account1 for the
antagonism.
Is it religious persecution to
insist that al children attend the
public school? ""
It is no more so for the Catho
lic than It Is for the Protestant.
Each one has the same prifllege
of supplementing. the secular edu
cation gimi by the state with any
and' all the religious training that
he desires. ' After the " child Is
through-Ihe, public school he has
YOU'RE JVRONG-rrS NOT POOH-BAH.
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attitude of the statesman are reminiscent of the versatile character
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the privilege of carrying him cn
through, denominational academ
ies and colleges. If the Catholic
meets religious persecution
throng the putolic school, so
does the Protestant. Both are on
the same plane. There is as large
a percentage of Catholics teach
ing In the schools as there Is of
any other denomination. My own
children have had both Catholic
and Protestant, teachers, and for
the life of me I could not tell
which was which. What then is
the real issue? It is this:
Is education a function of the
state?
1 If it is not a function of the
tate are we not wasting an im
mense amount of money upon
something irrelevant? Think what
it costs to, keep' up the schools!
If education is not a function of
the" state, Jet ns wipe ' out the
whole business.
Or is it a function of the
church? '
If so, should we not hand it
over (to the church, arid let every
church establish its own schools?
Would Mi tend to the "broad
mlndednessf which Mr. Fereshe
tian sobs ibont? In the eastern
townships jof Quebec the school
mpney is djvtded. Those who wish
to support parochial schools have
their money directed thither.
Xeard ago 'Catholic and Protestant
children lived together and at
tended the same schools in peace.
Then the "church began to empha
size; the parochial scbool. The
consequence, ""In many communi
ties, was that Protestant parents
were not aWe to support public
schools and must either send
their children to Catholic schools
to. be educated into Catholics r
for that is the purpose of the sep
arateschoA or else to sell out.
Hundreds have sold their farms
for a song and have moved away.
Whch hag? been the greater in
justice, to I'have kept" all in the
state school for their elementary
education, ' with permission to
the 'sects tp supplement this with
whaWvf religious'edacation they
desired, or5 th parochla school
plan? r I
Now it is not just to tax any.
man for anything from which he
gets, no benefit.
lethodist, Congregational and
baptist people in England were
Jong taxed ) to support the estab
lifhed church. As they got no
good from .it, they protested. I
know old heroes who had. the
sheriff take furniture out of their
homes' for years to pay the "tax
they refused to honor. Is it jost
to tax our Catholic friends to sup
port schools from which they can
get no benefit? -But if - public
moneys are paid -for rePigious ed
ucation, is this not a dangerous
union of church and ftate? The
present system is nnjust to the
Cattol'c. The parochial school
iMipported tT "state funds -would
be a still more dahgerou.3 experi
jneht, and jfould, land us . where
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Quebec is :today, in many; com-e
munities. 1 1
Is not the fairest plan for all
that of insisting that all attend;'
the primary public schools, un
der the tutelage of the, state? 'js
Is education a function of the;
state?
If K is, why should there bef
privileged classes within the
state? Legislation that permits!
privileged classes to evade its;
precepts is always dangerous leg-
islation. A state, to be a true de-l
mocracy should function a-lik
for all impartially. History ha &
proven , that ' the school system is?
the .bulwark1 of democracy. Thei
tate uiakes neither Cathol4iuiiil
Protestants, but Americans. Is
it not its right to say that alt its;
citizens shall be trained, first, to.
be good American citizens, and,
then let each sect, make of them
afterwards what it will?
Are our schools, animated by
the state ideal, unfit for the
children of a large proportion of
our people?
If o. should we not change the
whole system? What the schools
try to do is to teach American-!
Ism. They are the true breeding;:
places of democracy. America
owm its greatness and enlighten-;
ment to the schools of the land.
I! they are wrong, or if they; are
unfit for a' large proportion of
our children, then Americanism
is wrong. The purpose of the
public fchool is to make intelli
gent Americans. The purpose of
the denominational school is to
pake , Baptists and Methodists and
Catholics. Shall the state resign
its function?
Our present system is unfair
to the Catholic who pays to sup
port schools from which he gets
no benefit.
The parochial school would be
a dangerous union of church and
state, provided public moneys
were expended to keep it up.
Compulsory public education is
a function of the, state, as any
jurist will tell you. It is equally
fair to both Catholic and Uni
tarian, Baptist and Methodist; as
it puts all on the same plane.?
The state has the right to say
that all its citizens shall j, Ie
trained in Americanism. And the
nations of tho world are, coming
to the free public school system
and are discarding the parochial
system of primary! education.
Don't let anyone' fool you by try
ing to make this, a religious issae.
Is Is not a religious issue, but an
issue which will shelve the re
ligious issue by placing it jost
where it belongs; that is, in the
hands of the various denomina
tions When they come to provide
for the reHglouV training of .their
children in time not demanded
by the state' and the requirements
of good citizenship,
William T. Mllllken.
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