The Teaching of Religion in Secondary Schools
Abstract
The supreme outcome of life is character. The aim of the teacher of religion in the secondary school is the development of the Catholic character. Our great aim is to develop the human element and to carry over into other activities of life the principles of the Catholic religion. We must break down the barriers separating religion from the other fields of knowledge and make it instead life principle pervading the whole man. "We want to make our pupils not merely do the right thing, but enjoy the right thing; not merely industrious, but to love industry; not merely learned, but to love knowledge; not merely pure, but to love purity; not merely just, but to hunger and thirst after justice," as Ruskin says. This is true education.
Subject Area
Secondary education|Education|Religion
Recommended Citation
O'Toole, Teresa Gertrude, "The Teaching of Religion in Secondary Schools" (1928). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI31097115.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI31097115
