PROPER EDUCATION.
To the EditorSir,—l have read with great interest your lender ol January 31 on what you mime "L'ro|ier Education." Although J read the article very carefully, 1 failed to iiud anything in it touching what f call proper education. What 1 call proper. education .s a combination of secular and religious education, where the child's moral character is attended to first, where, the child is brought up to know and love God, where the child is taught to love and respect his neighbor, to be a honest, clean, good citizen. When a child is brought up to material' knowledge only, without any knowledge of God or holy religion, Mb like that of a trained animal. The greater the bram power the greater the si'oimdrel, if he is tlhat way inclined, only considering his own selfish ends without regard to justice. For centuries in Great Britain education was prohibited by Act of Parliament, or at least in a portion of Britain, at all events. But for the last seventy years education in Britain has undergone a great change, and as far as I can sea, there is more need fov improving the conditions of living which would enable the poor to take advantage of the existing system of education, which is hot so bad at all. Considering the British Government did not consider the poor When they were lightly burdened, as far as their national debt was concerned, being only for a great number of years from four hundred millions to seven hundred millions,. I fear that there is poor hope of doing much now when the national debt will be anything 'fiom ten thousand millions upwards. My own opinion is that the only change sticking out fof the poor of Britain is a new period of starvation, as it takes money to buy whisky, unless they adopt the Russian method. Mr Fisher, British Education MiDistdr. is going to create f(n" earthly paradise afteo the war, trot to attain his object it would be necessary to boil down the- whole British nation and mould a new race out of the old remains. You say, Sir, that Britain has not vat attained the :,tep,ladder 9ystem in vogue in New Zealand- I beg 'to Inform you that Britain stood on the same rotten ladder of education six hundred years ago that wo enjoy in New Zealand at tlie present day, wlhich moans tho bringingl up of the child to be greedy, selfish ami immoral- Tho child is taught that the chief object in life is to learn to get the best of his neighbor with any means that he can devise. But; thank's be to God, in spite of Britain's shortcomings in many respects, she abandoned this Godless system seventy years ago, which some people hold up as a parago.l of enlightenment to the paopla of New Zealand at the present day, and adopted in it stead the glorious system of national education, which enables parents to bring their children up in the fear and love of God. making them healthy, clean, honest and U3eful citi£«ns, a credit to their parents and their cotmtry. The system of education in New Zealand at the present time cowpares favorably with tlie system winch the infidel government of France adopted thirty years ago, when they boasted, they were going to banish God from the French nation, and it would seem to most observers as if Hfl had left, too. But at tlip present time they are very anxious for His return once more, and I fancy New Zealand some fine day will iind herself in the same position, and will feel sorry that they put so much confident m freethinkers and infidols in fne past. Bring up the child on artificial food with a foster mother in a Godless school, and then you "nave the animal complete.—l am, etc., JOHN DIGGENS. J-epperton, February 6, 1918,
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Taranaki Daily News, 12 February 1918, Page 6
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651PROPER EDUCATION. Taranaki Daily News, 12 February 1918, Page 6
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