CORRESPONDENCE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3643, 20 October 1890, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

(To the Editor.) ■' Sir.—Will yoa kindly allow me, • space for a few remarks upon your recent article referring to the question of demoninationalism, in whioh you deplore the illmanners of youug New Zealand, While regretting with you the general want of good breeding in the young and rising generation, it is, I think, hardly the fair thing, however convenientit may be, to make a sonpo goat of the ' State johools, You contend that our young boys and. girls .require ■ -• religious instruction, and you'suggest; only one means of giving it to them, they should have a' spoonful every morning from the. State school: teacher.' The' Stitej for Bound ' reasons of publij policy, is obliged to, confine the teaching in the. State * schools: to reading, writingj and VJ .j.,- t arithmetic, excluding; all the. iea-^_ ; tions that touch the religious. oon-jPw science, and if, as. you -suggest, the cateohism of the Church of . England \ were included in the syllabus, which..., by the way, teaches nothing that not taught in the class books now in , :■ use, a sectarian element would be introduced that would disturb the harmony arid good feeling now existing,. revive the feuds of the long , buried past, and blow into a flame the. smouldering embers 'of religious : strife.—l am, ifeo'.; Parent. . [Parent .strains our artiole.a, little. Perhaps he is not aware that prior to-1872 religious instruction was tolerated in our State schools and was unattended by the disturbance/' and strife which he refers to.-- ' Ed,W.Dailt.]