The essential aim pursued by the Church through two millenia is the combination of intellectual education with moral and religious training.

The educational activity of the Church can be classified into four areas:

• Institutions - established to meet different needs
• Writings - of Catholic educationists and educators
• Teaching Work - of the various religious Orders
• Catholic School Systems - maintained and supported by voluntary contributions

This Curricula: Education pulls together the most essential aspects of this subject for easy access.

NOTE: This is not an article from the Catholic Encyclopedia. It is provided here for the benefit of those interested in pursuing additional studies in this area.

Contents 1 I. GENERAL SURVEY 1.1 A. Education 2 II. DEVELOPMENT - PRE-CHRISTIAN 3 III. DEVELOPMENT - CHRISTIAN 3.1 A. Institutions -Early and Medieval 3.1.1 1. Schools 3.1.2 2. Universities 3.1.3 3. Foundations 3.1.4 4. Colleges 3.1.5 5. Orders 3.2 B. Institutions - Renaissance Period 3.3 C. Institutions - Reformation Period 3.4 D. Institutions - Post-Reformation Period 3.4.1 1. Teaching Orders 3.4.2 2. Universities 3.4.3 3. Colleges 3.5 F. Institutions -Modern Period 3.5.1 1. Universities 3.5.2 2. Colleges 3.5.3 3. Schools 3.5.4 4. Teaching Orders (Survey) 3.5.5 5. Educationists 4 IV. SPECIAL TOPICS 4.1 A. Women 4.2 B. Disabled 4.3 C. Associations

I. GENERAL SURVEY

The study of this subject should begin with a general survey of education, its nature and purposes:

A. Education

• Meaning
• Principles
• Parochial Principles
• Right to educate
• Parents, duty of

II. DEVELOPMENT - PRE-CHRISTIAN

As the nature and purpose of education have varied in the course of time, the historical development should then be followed:

• Oriental
• Greek
• Roman
• Jewish

III. DEVELOPMENT - CHRISTIAN

Now we make detailed reference to the changes brought about by Christianity and the Church over the course of time.

• Aim and principles

A. Institutions -Early and Medieval

1. Schools

• Catechetical History
• Catechetical Schools
• Monastic
• Cathedral
• Guild
• Guilds
• Carlovingian
• Alcuin - an eminent educator, scholar, and theologian
• Seven Liberal Arts
• Benedictine

2. Universities

• Origin and name
• Popes and
• Academic work
• Studies and Degrees
• Arts, Bachelor of
• Arts, Master of
• Doctor

3. Foundations

a. In France

• University of Paris
• University of Montpellier
• Schools of Orleans
• University of Perpignan
• University of Angers
• Toulouse
• University of Avignon
• University of Cahors
• University of Grenoble
• University of Caen
• University of Bordeaux
• University of Valencia

b. In Italy

• University of Bologna
• University of Modena
• University of Reggio
• University of Padua
• University of Vercelli
• University of Rome
• Studium Generale apud Curiam
• University of Siena
• University of Piacenza
• University of Perugia
• University of Treviso
• University of Pisa
• University of Pavia
• University of Turin
• University of Catania
• University of Salerno

c. In England

• University of Oxford
• University of Cambridge

d. In Scotland

• University of St. Andrews
• University of Glasgow
• University of Aberdeen

e. In Ireland

• University of Dublin

f. In Spain

• University of Palencia
• University of Salamanca
• University of Seville
• University of Valladolid
• University of Huesca
• University of Barcelona
• University of Saragossa
• University of Avila
• University of Siguenza
• University of Alcala
• University of Valencia
• University of Santiago

g. In Germany

• University of Prague
• University of Vienna
• University of Heidelberg
• University of Cologne
• University of Wurzburg
• University of Leipzig
• University of Rostock
• University of Greifswald
• University of Freiburg
• University of Ingolstadt
• University of Tubingen

h. In Other Countries

• University of Coimbra
• University of Cracow
• University of Louvain
• University of Upsala
• University of Copenhagen

4. Colleges

• Overview
• Oxford
• Cambridge
• Sorbonne - celebrated theological college of the French capital
• William of Wayneflete - Bishop of Winchester; founder of Magdalen College; provost of Eton College
• William of Wykeham - Bishop of Winchester, Chancellor of England; founder of Winchester College

5. Orders

• Dominicans (Preachers)
  • Middle Ages
  • Modern Period
• Franciscans (Friars Minor)
• Brethren of the Common Life

B. Institutions - Renaissance Period

• General character
• Humanism
• Universities
• Erasmus
• John Colet - Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral and founder of St. Paul's School, London
• Vittorino da Feltre - Italian educator and exemplary Catholic layman
• Maffeo Vegio - Churchman, humanist, poet, and educator
• Lorenzo Valla - Humanist and philosopher
• Agricola, Rudolph

C. Institutions - Reformation Period

• Effect on universities
• Melanchthon

D. Institutions - Post-Reformation Period

1. Teaching Orders

• Jesuits (Society of Jesus)
• Ratio Studiorum
• Christian Brothers
• Piarists (Clerks Regular) - provide free education for poor children
• Port-Royal - Daughters of the Blessed Sacramen; known for its schools
• Oratorians
• Seminaries (ecclesiastical)
• Society of Saint-Sulpice
• Eudists - principal works of the society are the education of priests

2. Universities

• University of Douai
• Universty of Dillingen
• University of Graz - German University located in the capital of the Province of Steiermark
• Innsbruck University
• University of Breslau
• University of Fulda
• University of Munster
• Spanish-American Universities
• University of St. Thomas (Manila)
• University of St. Mark (Lima)

3. Colleges

• Irish Colleges on the Continent
• College of St. Isidore, Rome
• College of St. Omer
• Oscott - location of St. Mary's College
• Ushaw College
• Stonyhurst College
• Old Hall - St. Edmoond's College, founded after the fall of the English College in France
• Roman Colleges - various colleges founded under ecclesiastical auspices; under ecclesiastical direction
• English College, Rome
• Scots College, Rome
• Irish College, Rome
• Propaganda, Rome - Vatican department for the defense and propagation of the Faith
• Maynooth College - The National College of Saint Patrick in Ireland

F. Institutions -Modern Period

1. Universities

• General statement
• Catholic University of Lille - France
• University of Fribourg - Switzerland
• American University - Beirut

• Laval University of Quebec - Canada
• University of Ottawa - Canada
• University of St. Francis Xavier's College - Canada
• University of St. Joseph's College - Canada

• Catholic University of Ireland
• University College, Dublin

• Georgetown University - In Washington, D.C.
• Catholic University of America - A pontifical institution located at Washington, D.C.
• Columbia University - Portland, Oregon
• De Paul University - Chicago

• Fordham University - Westchester. New York
• Loyola University - Chicago
• Loyola University, New Orleans - Louisiana
• Marquette University - Milwaukee, Wisconsin

• Niagara University - New York
• St. John's University - Collegeville, Minnesota

• University of Santiago - Chile

2. Colleges

• All Hallows College
• North American, Rome
• South American College, Rome
• American, Louvain
• College of the Anima, Rome
• College of Saint Bonaventure
• Mount St. Mary's College
• Trinity College

3. Schools

• Apostolic Schools - Organized to cultivate vocations for the foreign missions
• Parochial Schools
  • Principles

• in Australia
• in Canada
• in England
• in Ireland
• in Scotland
• in the United States

4. Teaching Orders (Survey)

• The Brothers of St. Gabriel, founded by Blessed Grignon de Montfort and M. Deshayes, in 1795 and 1821
• The Brothers of Christian Instruction of Ploermel, founded by J.-M. de Lamennais, in 1816;
• The Brothers of Christian Doctrine of Nancy, founded by Father Frechard, in 1817
• The Little Brothers of Mary (Marists), founded by Pere Champagnat, in 1817
• The Brothers of the Sacred Heart of Paradis, founded by Father Coindre, in 1821
• The Brothers of the Society of Mary, founded by Pere Chaminade, in 1817
• The Brothers of the Holy Family, founded by Brother Gabriel Taborin, in 1821
• The Brothers of the Cross of Jesus, founded by Pere Bochard, in 1824
• The Clerics of St-Viateur, founded by Pere Guerbes, in 1829
• The Congregation of the Holy Cross, founded by M. Moreau and M. Dujarris, in 1835
• The Congregation of the Holy Ghost and the Sacred Heart of Mary, founded by Father Liebermann, in 1841
• The Brothers of Mercy, founded by M. Delamare, in 1842
• The Christian Brothers of Ireland, founded by Brother Ignatius Rice, in 1805
• Institute of the Sisters of the Christian Schools of Mercy, founded by Ven. Julie Postel, in 1802
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5. Educationists

• Bathe, William - Jesuit; educator in music and languages
• Beckedorff, Georg Philipp Ludolf von - physician; educator; convert; Catholic apologist; founded a school and home for poor children
• Bervanger, Martin de - French priest; founded schools of free instruction and professional training for workingmen; boarding-schools for the poor

• Blanchard, Jean-Baptiste - French Jesuit; educator; professor at Metz, Verdun, and Pont-a-Mousson
• Bommel, Cornelius Richard Anton van - Bishop during politically turbulent times; revived Catholic elementary education, and pushed for foundation of a Catholic university.
• Bosco, Giovanni Melchior - founder of the Salesian Society; during his lifetime 250 schools established with 130,000 poor chidren; also Sunday schools, evening schools for adult workmen, seminaries, technical schools, and printing houses

• Dupanloup, Felix-Antoine-Philibert - bishop; educator; noted for developing many modern educational principles
• Errington, William - Priest, founder of Sedgley Park School
• Felbiger, Johann Ignaz Von - Augustinian priest; German education reformer, pedagogical writer

• Gaume, Jean-Joseph - priest; theologian; professor; education reformer
• Gaultier, Aloisius-Edouard-Camille - Priest; schoolmaster; prolific writer of textbooks; French educational system reformer
• Gerando, Joseph-Marie de - Oratorian trained; French educational system reformer; member, Academie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres; Academy of Sciences; Legion of Honor

• Girard, Jean-Baptiste - Swiss priest (known as Père Girard); educator; school system administrator
• Hogan, John Baptist - priest; chair of dogmatic theology in the Seminary of Saint-Sulpice at 23; president, graduate theological seminary at the Catholic University
• Holmes, John - priest; Catholic educator

• Jacotot, Joseph - French educator
• St. John Baptist de la Salle - Founder of the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools; educational reformer, and father of modern pedagogy
• Meilleur, Jean-Baptiste - French Canadian physician; educator; a founder of College de L'Assomption; superintendent of provincial education; science textbook author; educational historian

• Ohler, Aloys Karl - German priest; educationist; director of the Hessian Catholic teachers' training college
• Overberg, Bernhard Heinrich - German ecclesiastic; educator; developed teacher education methods; created the profession of female lay-teacher
• Pachtler, George Michael - German Jesuit; educator; educational writer; educational reformer

• St. Peter Fourier - formed religious Congregations to teach poor boys and girls
• Pfister, Adolf - German priest; educationist; extensive work on educational principles
• Rice, Edmund Ignatius - Founder of the Irish "Brothers of the Christian Schools"

• Rolfus, Hermann - priest; educationist; ; extensive work on educational principles
• Sailer, Johann Michael - Jesuit; bishop; professor of pastoral and moral theology, pedagogics, homiletics, liturgy, catechetics
• Salzmann, Joseph - founder of St. Francis Provincial Seminary; the first Catholic normal school in the U.S. (Catholic Normal School of the Holy Family) and of Pio None College.

• Stockl, Albert - German priest; professor of exegesis, Hebrew, and philosophy; prolific writer, including textbooks covering the entire field of philosophy
• Stone, Marmaduke - Jesuit; president, Liège Academy; Liège Academy of English Jesuits
• Vierthaler, Franz Michael - renowned Austrian educator

• Kehrein, Joseph - educator, philologist, and historian of German literature
• Rosmini-Serbati, Antonio - priest, philosopher, founder of the Institute of Charity; educator
• Drane, Augusta Theodosia - Convert, known as Mother Francis Raphael, O.S.D.; educator of religious women

IV. SPECIAL TOPICS

A. Women

• Education of Women
• Convent Schools (Great Britain)
• Co-Education
• Fenelon
• Jeanne-Louise-Henriette Campan - French educator; superintendent of the Imperial Academy of Ecouen

Cf. also Religious Orders

B. Disabled

• Blind
• Louis Braille - French educator and inventor
• Hauy, Valentin - founder of first school for the blind; known as "Father and Apostle of the Blind"

• Deaf and Dumb
• Juan Pablo Bonet - Spanish priest and educator of the disabled
• Charles-Michel de L' Epee - Philanthropic priest; inventor of the sign alphabet for the instruction of the deaf and dumb

C. Associations

• Catholic Educational Association

STATISTICS: See articles on Dioceses.

LEGISLATION: See articles on the different countries and on the separate U.S. States