Secular Education.
Sir Robert Stout contributes Srfloli/f article to the, Melbourne Age fhowiiifg from statistics that seculaf'-education in New Zealand has not resultef in.an increase of crime, but in a marked decrease The percentage of serious crime was highest in the year. 1878 V namely, 066 per thousand of population. In the year 1890 it had fallen lo 081 The young crimnals has also decreased since secular education was established. Sir Robert Stout says:—lf itiiad increased in that time the Education Act would' have been blamed. It having fallen may I ask in fairness, ought not the Edueation Act to get some need of praise for thils result. The Age commenting on jtie article says:—lt is worthy of note that the colony which |s so frequently set up ; as an example in its devotion to Scripture lessons is at this, moment bewailing its phenomenal increase* m criminal development. If State school Bible lessons would make people moral, New South Wales should by by this time be approaching a millennial condition ; and if their absence be as fatal as we are sometimes told New Zealand oughtjto resemble apandemonium. 1
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Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 3, Issue 14, 19 February 1892, Page 2
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188Secular Education. Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 3, Issue 14, 19 February 1892, Page 2
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