Excerpt from The Catholic Educational Review, Vol. 10
It has been truthfully remarked by a profound thinker of the teaching profession that the light shining in on the teacher through the window of the history of education is worth a whole library of devices. At any rate, an ever living and growing knowledge of educational history fosters respect for the past and promotes modesty and docility in the teacher who studies it, and thus makes him more efficient in preparing the young for this world, in alluring to brighter worlds and leading the way. The history of education is valuable to the teacher because of the inspiration it affords.
As a new and worthy contribution to this subject, Dr. P. J. McCormick's "History of Education" will be received with favor by all the teachers and professors of the Catholic educational system of the United States. It is much to be regretted that we have not had a Catholic history of education long ere this.
To histories of education written by non-Catholics and anti-Catholics there is no end, ranging all the way from the downright libel of Compayre to the somewhat fair output of Monroe. Compayre, with undisguised prejudice, attacks Catholic teaching; he distorts practices of certain old teaching orders in the Church, especially the Jesuits and the Christian Brothers, with a view of holding up to ridicule the whole plan and purpose of Catholic education. We might as well dismiss Compayre at once as too libellous for a hearing.
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