EDUCATION SYSTEM

Hokitika Guardian, 14 October 1931, Page 7

EDUCATION SYSTEM

ATTACKED BY BISHOP. DIVORCE LAW TAX?

■HAMILTON, October 9, * "This ia supposed to be God's Own Country, but look at it!” exclaimed Bishop Cherrington when addressing the Hamilton Luncheon Club to-day. “For how many years have \ve been content to tamper with the age-long arrangement of family life, and allowed husband and wife to leave each other on the slenderest grounds? How can we expect a country to prosper which, in that particular, is doing something contrary to that which we believe to be for the wefl-being of society—the family life? “Can a country be expected to succeed which gives its boys and girls no lasting basis for building up character and life? Why should our children be honest, moral and truthful? For 60 yearsr God has been banished from our schools. You cannot grumble, then, that our mental •hospials are full and our crime statistics vastly out-weight those of England proportionately. I do not assert that these incidents are related, but 1 do assume that there is great probability that they are.

“Xo svstern of education can be lasting unless the spiritual power behind the universe is a real factor in the live, of those we arc responsible for. I fail to understand how any parent can send his children to be educated in an atmos pherc in which he does not believe. Wha.t on earth is the use of algebra and French in building up character? Who in thi; room worries about algebra or French raid the other things we learned at school? Shakespeare may be a relaxation, to read or to pray, but he will not save anyone from the temptation, tiials and disputes in which we find ourselves.