GODLESS EDUCATION

New Zealand Tablet, 10 April 1919, Page 27

GODLESS EDUCATION

“Doctrinal and religious teaching may well be left to the home, the Sunday school, and the church, and to the opportunities now offered to the clergy to make use of the schools,” says the Dunedin Evening Star, in a sentence which for sheer incapacity to grasp the question at issue would take some beating. The Star suggests , then the following resolution for meetings of householders: “That this meeting of householders in the school district strongly protest against the making of grants to any but State schools, and that the Government be requested to take steps to render illegal the granting of allowances to private or denominational schools.” Instead of that resolution in favor of a State monopoly and of despotism we would suggest thisone: ’ “That the Democracy of New Zealand take steps to prevent Jews, Atheists, and anti-Christian from, dictating to parents when or where chi] - dren shall receive religious education, and that

a system more in accordance with the views of a Christian community be introduced in place of the present system borrowed from godless Franco which has now declared it bankrupt!” The penalised private schools are beating the * favored and well-endowed State institutions. Hence these tears! *