RELIGIOUS EDUCATION
“CHILDREN’S YEAR” SUGGESTED CONFERENCE BREAKS UP Press Association CHRISTCHURCH, Today The national conference on religious education concluded yesterday. The following resolutions were carried: That this conference, realising that approximately 90,000 children in the Dominion receive no religious instruction, and that spiritual ignorance is a menace to the well-being of the community and a reproach to the church, calls upon churches and religious or- j ganisations to observe next year as a j children’s year, and to take all the necessary steps to ensure that every boy and girl in New Zealand has the opportunity to receive religious instruction. That this conference considers that the word “secular” in the Education Act is a misnomer, and that secular education is not and never has been logically applied, and inevitably breaks down in practice. Believing that the Act was intended to exclude sectarianism rather than religion, it asks for the substitution of the word “secular” by the term “non-sectarian.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 761, 6 September 1929, Page 14
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158RELIGIOUS EDUCATION Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 761, 6 September 1929, Page 14
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