Catholic Education in America Today
There is one truth on which the entire modern world is agreed and
that is the importance of education. This conviction is common to the
democratic and communist worlds and to the new world of Asiatic and
African nationalism which is emerging as a kind of third power in the
world. However much they may differ on the ultimate aims of education,
they all agree as to its value and the need for more of it. And the result
is that the student population of the world is increasing as never before
and will increase still faster. In the past the university student and
graduate were an exception, now they are becoming the rule, so that the
world of the future, whatever its form of government, will be governed, by
university graduates who are elected by graduates. The business of the
world will be in the hands of men with university degrees in economics
and business administration and even the wars of the future will be fought
by armies of graduates commanded by specialist officers.
And there is no country in the world where this/is more marked than
in the United States. One of the first things that strikes a European
on first visiting America is the immense development of the educational
system and the amount of time and money that is devoted to it. Perhaps
this is specially marked in New England where I have been teaching recently.
There, every town seems to have its university or college, and a city like
Boston has a dozen. In the West no doubt the educational institutions are
not so thick on the ground but In compensation they are larger in size and
some of the great universities of the Middle West must be among the largest
and most well equipped institutes for higher education In the world. Certainly
there is no country in which so large a proportion of the population
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Catholic Education in America Today
There is one truth on which the entire modern world is agreed and
that is the importance of education. This conviction is common to the
democratic and communist worlds and to the new world of Asiatic and
African nationalism which is emerging as a kind of third power in the
world. However much they may differ on the ultimate aims of education,
they all agree as to its value and the need for more of it. And the result
is that the student population of the world is increasing as never before
and will increase still faster. In the past the university student and
graduate were an exception, now they are becoming the rule, so that the
world of the future, whatever its form of government, will be governed, by
university graduates who are elected by graduates. The business of the
world will be in the hands of men with university degrees in economics
and business administration and even the wars of the future will be fought
by armies of graduates commanded by specialist officers.
And there is no country in the world where this/is more marked than
in the United States. One of the first things that strikes a European
on first visiting America is the immense development of the educational
system and the amount of time and money that is devoted to it. Perhaps
this is specially marked in New England where I have been teaching recently.
There, every town seems to have its university or college, and a city like
Boston has a dozen. In the West no doubt the educational institutions are
not so thick on the ground but In compensation they are larger in size and
some of the great universities of the Middle West must be among the largest
and most well equipped institutes for higher education In the world. Certainly
there is no country in which so large a proportion of the population
