EDUCATION.
The following memorial m favor of Na ; tional Education, is being extensively signed in the Mount Ida District;— “ To the Hon. the Speaker and Members of General Assembly. “ The petition of the undersigned parents and guardians of children attending the Public Schools of the Province q£ Otago, “ HumMy she weth—- “ That your petitioners’ children have been enjoying for many years the inestimable blessing of a thoroughly sound, liberal, intellectual, and moral education, under the existing National system of Education. That your petitioners, although belonging to various denominations, have never had any cause or shadow of ground for complaint, and do not believe that there has been the remotest attempt at any teaching of sectarian doctrines peculiar to any one church, in tho public schools of Otago. That your petitioneers would strongly oppose any attempt to alter the present National systerq of Eflu’r cation into a Denominational one, as such a course would in a great measure destroy the efficiency of the existing schools ; would prevent the possibility of schools being maintained in outlying districts, and would be calculated to continue in the rising generation disseutions and differences on purely sectarian grounds, thus preventing to a great extent thecultivationof what ought to be aimed at—the establishment of one grand feeling of New Zealand Nationality, V our petitioners would also oppose such a change, as it would be a retrograde step in legislation, the universal tendency being in all free c >untries to advance towards a National system of Education, and they would point to the f ct that even Great Britain is fast emerging from the trammels of sectarianism to a system of Education similar to that already established in Otago.
May it therefore please your Honorable House, that in passing any Educational measure you will preserve intact to this Province of i tago the Education system as at present established. And your petitioners will ever pray.
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Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2632, 25 July 1871, Page 2
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317EDUCATION. Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2632, 25 July 1871, Page 2
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