RELIGION IN EDUCATION.
ARCHBISHOP REDMOND'S
VIEWS
GOD ix st HOOI.IMUM
(IJ.v Telegraph.— Press Association.) OAMARt", Sunday. Ihe opening of u new Christian Brothers Roman Catholic I ollejje of St. Mary's this afternoon was attended bv all the principal dignitaries of the I'onian tatholic Church in New Zealand and about -<>(10 people, including 200 who came by special train from Dunedin. The new college is a palatial building two miles from Oamaru. Archbishop Kedwood congratulated the Christian Brothers on their eminent success as teachers, not only in the Dominion. but in Australia and other lands. Speaking 011 the duty of education, lie said: — "To take Cod out of the life of the child or to leave Him there only during the brief hours of the Sundav School is not. only a crime in a ( hristian nation, but a t'rofs and weil-nijih irremediable pedagogical error. The -jreat duty of education, considered purely from the standpoint of the natural and normal dexelopment of the human facilities, is to put <>od in the schoolroom, to enthrone Him in the heart and the mind of childhood and youth. There is no education substitute for tlie Tea Com- _
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Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 31, 7 February 1927, Page 10
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