NELSON SYSTEM

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 416, 26 July 1928, Page 2

NELSON SYSTEM

WHAT IT PROVIDES In answer to a correspondent's request for information about the *.Vson svstem” of Bible reading v schools, the following facts have «« ascertained. . Tho Nelson system, named after utown in which it originated ca* vears ago, has no recognition m « Education Act. The Bible- in-Schoo. League regards it as inadequate. The following schools in the Aua land education district have the ft * tem in operation:— Maungawhau. - Eden. Birkenhead. MorrinsvUle. W" tiki. Totara, Motumaoho. three Hamilton, two in Thames. Rotorua ar. Russell. When it is suggested that a should embrace the system a ondum of the parents* opinion ‘ If a majority is in favour, the auc land Education Board, to J*’" 10 ' 1 plication must bo made, makes a tic© of granting permission. . Th© system is really an arrange■ by which clergymen, with the eo of parents, committee and boara. ** undenominational and unsecfiuia ligious instruction to the childre may be given outside school ho it usually occupies half an h°ur mornings, from 9 o'clock to 3- • This half-hour comes off tne chour which is taught in the *cn th© Education Act requires on«y hours’ teaching a day. wni hours’ instruction is 81veI schools. Attendance by th® children entirely voluntary*. -_ t , Th© instruction usually consis . a prayer, a Bible reading, a dress and a final prayer. ren are not divided into d tional groups. Various the classes in turn. Only Pc Churches have taken the °PP° to give instruction.