THE SCHOOL SYLLABUS.
TEACHING OF EVOLUTION. THE MINISTER’S DISCLAIMER. (Peb United Press Association.) HAMILTON, August 2. The Minister of Education (Mr H. Atmore), replying to a protest against the 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 he • 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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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20786, 3 August 1929, Page 16
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123THE SCHOOL SYLLABUS. Otago Daily Times, Issue 20786, 3 August 1929, Page 16
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