RELIGIOUS TEACHING
Large Issues Involved “The question of religious teaching in ctoto schools involves large and coniplt eated- issues on which .there are sharp differences of opinion within the con munity and within tlie teaching ser vices’’states the consultative committee on the post-primary school curricula • “We consider,” adds the .comm>ttee, “that we would have been justified in making a pronouncement on these.> ssu ®® onlv if we bad been specially charged to consider them. As it was, we have no reason to think that they were in mind when we were constituted a committee. Further a committee that ventured, to deal with them would be in duty bound to invite evidence fjrom all interested g?o«ps and to give it very full consideration. This we were not m a post Hou to do In these circumstances we felt that wo would be exceeding our functions it we proceeded to discuss any proposed changes in the status quo and to recommendations in respect of them.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 116, 11 February 1944, Page 4
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