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ENGLISH STUDIES
The following subjects are studied in English:
- English Language Arts
- Literature (History & Geography)
- Mathematics
- Logic, Reasoning & Ethics (beginning in level 9)
We cannot have a perfect knowledge even of our own language without some acquaintance with more than one other, either classical [Latin] or modern [Italian]. This is especially true of English because it has drawn its strength and wealth from so many sources, and absorbed them into itself. But this value is usually taken indirectly, by the way, and the understanding of it only comes to us after years as an appreciable good. It is, however, recognized that no education corresponding to the needs of our own time can be perfected or even adequately completed in one language alone.
Not only do the actual conditions of life make it imperative to have more than one tongue at our command from the rapid extension of facilities for travelling, and increased intercourse with other nations; but in proportion to the cooling down of our extreme ardour for experimental science in the schoolroom we are returning to recognize in language a means of education more adapted to prepare children for life, by fitting them for intercourse with their fellow creatures and giving them some appreciative understanding of the works of man's mind. Thus languages, and especially modern languages, are assuming more and more importance in the education of children, not only with us, but in most other countries of Europe. In some of them the methods are distinctly in advance of ours.
-- Mother Erskine Stuart (1912)
Society of the Sacred Heart
Nun and Educationalist
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