Catholic Education Series, First Book

Catholic Education Series, First Book

Author: Shields, Thomas Edward, 1862-1921

Year: 1917

Catholic Education Series, First Book Catholic Education Series, Second Book Catholic Education Series, Religion Third Book Catholic Education Series, Third Reader PREFACE This First Book of the Catholic Education Series has been in use for nine years and a multitude of teachers and children have expressed their enthusiastic appreciation of its value. The book was originally published under the title "Religion First Book" as it was desired to emphasize the fact that Religion is the central element in Catholic education and that everything else in the curriculum for the child of six years should be adjusted to this central theme. The title, however, gave rise to no little misunderstanding of the purpose of the book and hence it was changed to its present form The book is intended to be the only book to be put into the child's hands during the first year of his school life, hence its content will be found to embrace the germinal concepts of all that is to be taught by the aid of advanced and complex curricula in the higher grades and in the higher institutions of learning. Great care has been exercised to secure unity of thought and its progressive development throughout the book. Th