English Education

Hastings Standard, Volume X, Issue 5346, 6 November 1906, Page 4

English Education

o Received November 6, 0 17 a m Londcn, November (5 The Archbishop of Canterbury, in a letter to Canon Scott Holland, explains that the House of Lords frankly ac- : cepted the principle of popular control ! in that every child attending the elej mentary schools should have an I opportunity of obtaining religious teaching of some sort if its parents desired it, subject to a conscience clause. Another amendment pro-

vided that a local authority should not arbitrarily ivt'u.=e to take over a voluntary school, unices it was structurally inefficient or unnecessary. The Bishop of Hereford's amendment ]>rovided tbat ia rural areas where there was only one school, whether it was a provided or a voluntary school, facilities for denominational teaching should be given every day at the expense ef the denomination. The Archbishop of Canterbury claims that the House of Lords is only contending for reasonable liberty as against unfair restriction.