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Most of the 2,500,000 children in U. S. Catholic parochial schools get an old-fashioned schooling, and most Catholic educators have no kind word for progressive education. One exception is brainy, brawny George Johnson, head of Catholic University's education department and educational director of the National Catholic Welfare Conference. Four years ago Dr. Johnson started a model elementary school attached to Catholic U.'s Sisters College, which trains nuns to teach in parochial schools. Aware that the strict curriculum of parochial schools (which enroll half of U. S. Catholic children) repelled many a Catholic parent...
Around traditional Catholic doctrine, which remained the core of his school, he organized "activities." In the first grade he taught his pupils "The Fatherhood of God" by discussing with them their own families and homes, getting them to build a house, reconstruct Bethlehem and Nazareth (complete with water and sewage systems), erect an altar with Quaker Oats boxes and paper. He also began to teach his first-graders to talk Latin...
This week, as his school began its fifth year and study of the Ten Commandments (approached through study of U. S. laws), Dr. Johnson had some 150 pupils and was busy answering questions from interested Catholic educators. Hoping that his school would be a model for U. S. Catholic schools. Dr. Johnson reminded them that St. Paul had exhorted the Ephesians to learn "by doing." that Pope Pius XI had urged the Catholic priesthood to be "healthily modern...
...Johnson took pains to divorce himself from lay progressive educators. "We Catholics," said he, "believe in original sin, and so we believe in discipline. A good many progressives don't seem to believe in any sin at all!" Discipline in Dr. Johnson's school, however, is a mild affair. In its four years, no child, he admitted, has been punished...
Closed during the evacuation, Britain's rural schools began to reopen last week. By running school houses on double shifts, using village halls, taking pupils on field trips, Britain's teachers, who had efficiently supervised the evacuation, hoped to give their children as good an education as ever...