"SECULAR EDUCATION."

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 676, 29 November 1909, Page 8

"SECULAR EDUCATION."

Sir,—From a perusal of "Socrates's" 1 "Notes oil education,'.' in your' issue-for Saturday your correspondent, I tako it, agam'endorues Archbishop Kelly's protest at the- reccnt Catholic Congress in Sydney, against placing w the hands of New.. South Wales Training College students. literature, presumably of Biblical origin. • "Socrates" has only placed before your readers 1 a portion of the argu-' menfc If he will follow this out to its'logical .conclusion, he .will' find Archbishop Kelly rdrnuUy anathematising- the "Godless educason5 on , a ' 'draining. Collego, should ■the Biblical literafure'bo withdrawn from the' curriculum, 'as..he suggests. Apart entirely from dogmatic .or denominational teaching; the highest.,authorities, and most able men-in' the realms oh science and philosophy; agree that it is practically ipipossible to. ignore the Bible and . still arrive: at the goal of a' full and complete education. In our owu .Dominion I am .quite aware that the Sunday Schools, are doing their utmost to fill the gap left by the Kxjular . system, which.. obtains in- our State Schools... The Sunday. Schools, however, leavo untouched, probably, half the population, and as a . result we'hare growing up among us young people (well-equipped- commercially, perhaps) but with the better and nobler qualimin°s Therefore ] thint ; the" time lias .arrived when we should call a halt in our secular system, with a view to the moral and intellectual betterment of the race.—l am, etc., A. A. CARSON, j Wellington, ~ November 22, 1209. ' '