ISLAM

THE CHRISTIAN AND MOSLEM ALPHABETS 107
habit with the Director as well as with the
pupils. They learned science and pedagogy,
but that did not affect their character."*
Without going into further details just at present,
let me give a slice of what happens
Schools.
in Christian
Judge lyindsey says :
"The boys brought before me for theft came for
the most part from the best day schools, the best
Sunday schools, and many of them from boys'
organisations that are nationally known, agencies,
one and all, supposed to make men of them.f
The Lookout Magazine of Christian Education
bitterly protested in an editorial thus :
"Every
college in America (Christian) is teaching heathenism
by having in its curriculum Tacitus, Virgil, Homer,
Sophocles, Euripides, ^schylus, Plato and Aristotle.
The minute you suggest using the writings of
Mathew, Mark, Luke, John, Paul, Isaiah, Jeremiah,
Ezekiel, or any of the rest of this noble group the
education nostrils elevate the nineteenth degree of
altitude. This, however, shows luckily the new
Christian attitude towards education."
But let us see what Mr. Levonian has
further got
to say in this regard. His next accusation against
the Islamic system of education is the pilfering
nature of Moslem students and teachers.
to say :
He goes on
* Moslem Mentality, pp. 93-94.
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Revolt of Modern Youth , p. 97.