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when the conditions on which alone our co-operation will be allowed
are of such a character as to make it evident that we are not intended
to have any real place in the education of our country.

May this treatise so ably written be a source of guidance and
encouragement to those who are giving their lives to the education of
Catholic children, and at the same time do something to dispel the
distrust and to overcome the hostility shown in high quarters towards
every Catholic educational endeavour.

FRANCIS CARDINAL BOURNE,
ARCHBISHOP OF WESTMINSTER.

CONTENTS

PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER
I. RELIGION
II. CHARACTER. I.
III. CHARACTER. II.
IV. THE ELEMENTS OF CATHOLIC PHILOSOPHY
V. THE REALITIES OF LIFE
VI. LESSONS AND PLAY
VII. MATHEMATICS, NATURAL SCIENCE, AND NATURE STUDY
VIII. ENGLISH
IX. MODERN LANGUAGES
X. HISTORY
XI. ART
XII. MANNERS
XIII. HIGHER EDUCATION OF WOMEN
XIV. CONCLUSION
APPENDIX I
APPENDIX II
INDEX

Pair though it be, to watch unclose
The nestling glories of a rose,
Depth on rich depth, soft fold on fold;
Though fairer he it, to behold
Stately and sceptral lilies break
To beauty, and to sweetness wake:
Yet fairer still, to see and sing,
One fair thing is, one matchless thing:
Youth, in its perfect blossoming.
LIONEL JOHNSON.

INTRODUCTION

A book was published in the United States in 1910 with the title,
EDUCATION: HOW OLD THE NEW. A companion volume might be written with a
similar title, EDUCATION: HOW NEW THE OLD, and it would only exhibit
another aspect of the same truth.

This does not pretend to be that possible companion volume, but to
present a point of view which owes something both to old and new, and
to make an appeal for the education of Catholic girls to have its
distinguishing features recognized and freely developed in view of
ultimate rather than immediate results.

CHAPTER I.

RELIGION.

"Oh! say not, dream not, heavenly notes
To childish ears are vain,
That the young mind at random floats,
And cannot reach the strain.

"Dim or unheard, the words may fall.
And yet the Heaven-taught mind
May learn the sacred air, and all
The harmony unwind."
KEBLE.

The principal educational controversies of the present day rage round
the teaching of religion to children, but they are more concerned with
the