RELIGION IN EDUCATION.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1813, 28 July 1913, Page 4

RELIGION IN EDUCATION.

Sir,—l notice in tho weekly edition of tho "London Times" of Juno G a report of a speech by Mr. Balfour, which will be of interest to nil those who aro studying the question of Biblo in schools in this country. He is reported to have snid that "tho division between religious and secular training was fundamentally erroneous. It implied a dualism of object which ho was convinced no thinking man, whatever his views were, could really approve of. The training of children and of the yonng people of the country was and must be tin organic whole. It followed that they ought to provido the parents with that kind of religious training, if any, which they desired in the schools t» which they were compelled to solid their children. Why, then, was not the simple basis of logic embodied in actual legislation? Tho difficulties were not theoretical so much as practical. , . . All they could do was to carry out as far as possible two ideals, namely, that religious education should not be severed from secular education, and that the religious education should be the religious education desired for the child by the parents of the child." "This is expressing exactly what the liible-in-Hchools J.cugue in this country is aiming al, and one is clad fo see that so able a man as Mr. DaH'our is ndvocating practically the same for the Old Countrv—l mil, ele., W. J. BRICK. July 19, 1913.