The New Education Act.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2784, 16 January 1878, Page 2

The New Education Act.

We have been requested to give insertion to the following extracts from tho New Zealand Tablet, Dec, 28, having reference to the above :

DR MOHAN OK THK SCHOOL COX3IITTEES.

Our opinion has been asked as to whether Catholics ought to take any part in the election of these committees. Our opinion is, that Catholics ought not to interfere in any way in the administration of the New Education Act. This Act has been passed in defiance of their opposition, and with the view of destroying Catholic education. Of course, therefore, Catholics should carefully abstain from incurring the terrible responsibility they must necessarily incur by helping to injure their own schools, and to establish a' Godless and demoralising system of education. Our business is to leave the undivided responsibility of injuring Christian education, and demoralising the rising generation, with the people, who, contrary to justice, reason, and decency, have forced the new Act on the people of this Colony.

CUBBENT TOPICS. With the commencement of the New Year begins the training of the children who are hereafter to form the "hoodlums" of New Zealand With every element needed to lay the foundation of prosperity, i and even of greatness, for the Colony within their reach, it has pleased our legislators in their wisdom to pitch upon a plan by which, instead of doing so, they have paved the way for vice and inaugurated a system of corruption that will certainly, if carried out thoroughly, make this fine country a plague spot on the face of creation, and a shame to the name of British Colonist. .

We give the letter from which this is extracted in another column, where it will be seen that the writer advocates as a corrective industrial and technical education^* We, however, find here a just illustration of the effects of the- secular system, and present it to our Catholic readers as a further incentive to avoid this system that has been introduced amongst us for the training of hoodlums,, larrikins, and rascals of all descriptions, and by which it is worthily attempted to undermine the Mother of Saints, tho Holy Catholic Church. Of the secularly educated ruffians referred to above, a large percenttge were guilty of murder and crimes of the worst description. Let us congratulate our legislators on the glorious measure wherewith they usher in the Now Year. :