MR BERNARD SHAW'S VIEWS ON EDUCATION.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1963, 21 January 1914, Page 2

MR BERNARD SHAW'S VIEWS ON EDUCATION.

'■Thn' , 'ATch(leaVoniof.;'Cbvoi7try./pvbsidr:;l on -November' 20..:ift'fii'lI poi'ur«.-'gi v<*ill'li'">v Mr.'. lionianlaSlunv, at iCoveniry.-Ojior'a; House,''on' "S;'.cci'i)ai'! l -'K:liicnlioi , i'.'!.v-'Tlin lecture- was one of. a ttni's in aid. of the Kmcwency'K'iiml for Chiiidi .Sobor.i.; in 'the.' -Archdeaconry..;./;;• Mr. Ucrnnid. Shaw traced the history of the idea that religion should; not ■ he,separate!! -7ronj.. ti*-iif>rah- iodiientioii.Xi; At • « s- Tendon:; County' Council oleetic'm'he 1 .was'; defeat-' ed because he. -the Nonconformist view 'of r cclucatiou,ST!io'. difficulty-, ho saiil,. -was* to.(-,liiiVy§wii«tr-: secular education ".'was, and was■ cir--,, tain- that-ethiealjiiistriietioiKc'o'uhl• hot/: .lie free. from, .dtictrinc ; of*/some\sort?;, "wliilo to oacir evohitioii aloiio W'o'uld'.lrj';' to teach the most-., damnable,thing nns--. sible,.'.. .Moral bnoksj'ot'.■'iiis.tiiictio'ii-..iho'-describod.;as. perfectly ■dreadful.'-'' People : could bo r ;.given- uood: ; . : .ii]oral -instruction; but not.out of hanks? save'.'the'. Authorised ' Version of,tluvEngli-xhflNbliO 1 He' thoughtthe whole' education,system- of' I the country: would soon have'l6 bo .overhauled;' ,"mcanwhile ; ';' Chnrcli..'.Schools could brine; forward ,a : stroiiFoi\c:iso .as places wore .real science ;• was ..taught than so-railed, "'.secular..-., schools,,-; and people- who had anv .motley to spare cii'uid spend it just as,well on the form"}-, as on any other school.-v 'The,' Arch--, deacon, in thankim; Mr.'.Shaw'for.'hir. lecture, said if he applied to the Bishopof Worcester lor.. a lay-rond'orship-r----(lau^hter)—ho-i'wqidd; rejected.'. ;, , > ■'■'.'■ - ; ■•■; ;.■ ■ V-. ; '';:.,.-C-,.y