higher than the catechumen school in its
course of study, and in the intelligence and learning of its students
and professors.

CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA (150-220)

Among the most promising of the pupils of Pantaenus was Clement of
Alexandria, who was his successor in the direction of the school.
Clement was brought up a pagan, but was not satisfied with the heathen
religion, and made a careful study of Christianity. He traveled
everywhere, and sought out old men who had listened to the apostles, or
whose parents had done so; and thus he hoped to learn the truth
directly. As a result of his research, he became profoundly impressed
with the purity of the morals of the Christians and the truth of their
religion. He was a great teacher as well as Father of the Church.

=His Pedagogy.=--1. Faith is the cornerstone of knowledge.

2. Mosaic law and heathen philosophy are not opposed to each other, but
simply parts of the same truth. Both prepared the way for Christianity.
Jewish law and Greek philosophy are steps in the development of the
world which prepare the way for revelation. Christianity is the
fulfillment of law and philosophy.

3. He brought all the speculations of the Christians and the culture of
the Greeks to bear upon Christian truth, and sought to harmonize the
two.

The teachings of Clement gain in importance when we remember the bitter
strife in the Church over the use of classic literature, which lasted
for centuries, and the scholastic movement a thousand years later, which
also sought to harmonize philosophy and religion.

ORIGEN (186-253)

Origen was a pupil of Clement in the catechetical school at Alexandria,
and became his successor. Besides being brought up in an atmosphere of
culture in his native city, and surrounded by influences that stimulated
intellectual growth, he was fortunate in having a man of learning for
his father. From him he learned Greek, mathematics, grammar, rhetoric,
logic, and a knowledge of the Holy Scriptures. He began to teach in the
catechetical school when only eighteen years of age, a remarkable fact
when one remembers that he had among his students learned pagan
philosophers, and that it was very unusual for so young a man to be
allowed to teach. He was abstemious in his habits, self-sacrificing,
generous, and withal consistent in his life.

=Origen's Pedagogy.=--1. Never teach pupils anything that you do not
yourself practice.

2. The end of education is to gro