"A Comparison of the Religious Concepts of Catholic Pupils in Catholic " by Patricia Ann Walsh
 

Date of Award

7-1955

Degree Type

Master's Essay - Restricted

Degree Name

Master of Education (MEd)

Department

Education

First Advisor

George J. Mouly

Abstract

Education is a development of the individual person, of all his potentialities and every part of his being so that he will be better able to attain his end in this life. The catechism teaches that man's purpose is to know, love, and serve God in this world and be happy with Him forever in the next. This end is a supernatural end, one that has to do with man's soul more than with his body. For this reason the end of education is supernatural, extending above and beyond his immediate earthly needs. Because his whole life is to be directed to his final end, the education that will help him to attain that end is to fill his entire life; it must come to him with everything he learns and not be bracketed off to one period of the day's instructions. Unless the Catholic school system accomplishes this objective it fails to fulfill the purpose of its existence. Even though the child receives spiritual training through various channels as the family, the parish, the contacts with religious persons and from God Himself through the Sacraments and Graces, none of which is to be underestimate, the formal religious instruction and integration given in the school plays an important and indispensable role. An attempt to determine the effectiveness of religious instruction in the Catholic school and to compare it with results obtained by Catholic children in public schools would appear to be a worthwhile expenditure of time and effort.

Comments

A Research Paper Submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Marquette University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Education, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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