THE DIVORCE OF CHURCH AND SCHOOL.
“Tt may quu> w.-l! 1.,- lint the future pliilosopliical -.iiiilrin i>i history will yet line! the most siguilicnnt nucl disquieting of all the social changes of the ‘Victorinu age' to be the combination of tiniviorsnl State-enforced primary education with the transference of the work of the teacher 'to the hands of laymen under no effective ecclesiastical or theological control. The effect of this successful laicisation of education has inevitably been to raise the immediate practical question whether moral conduct, the direction of life does not form a self-containeu domain, and ethics a wholly autonomous flcience, neither requiring support or completion from religion, nor affording rational ground for religious convictions of nnv kind. The gravity of this practical issue can hardly be exaggerated. Something more momentous than even our national existence is at stake; the question is that of an ideal for life for the whole of future humanity.”—Professor Taylor, Edinburgh.
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Hokitika Guardian, 4 May 1931, Page 2
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156THE DIVORCE OF CHURCH AND SCHOOL. Hokitika Guardian, 4 May 1931, Page 2
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