TEACHING OF EVOLUTION
INTENTION MISUNDERSTOOD By Telegraph.—Press Association. Hamilton, August 2. The Minister of Education, replying to a Hamilton protest against a reference to evolution in the new school syllabus, says that the intention has been misunderstood. There is no intention that the theory of evolution in connection with the ancestry of man shall be taught in the schools. “It is quite unlikely that teachers will extract a wrong meaning from the reference in the syllabus. The intention of the syllabus is that the children should be led by a first-hand study of nature to discover some part, however small, of the wonderful plan of creation, gaining thereby an increased love and reverence for the Creator.”
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 264, 3 August 1929, Page 10
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116TEACHING OF EVOLUTION Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 264, 3 August 1929, Page 10
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