TEACHING AND RELIGION
“ Is there such a thing as secular education? My reply is definitely,
* no,’ for it is impossible to separate religion and education. A good teacher with a real sense of vocation, who recognises that religion is something to be lived as well as taught, cannot teach passionlessly and irreligiously. Education is a form of religion, which includes the love of truth and beauty the making of character and the capacity for service. It may be that the greatest book in the world is read infrequently, if at all, in some of the homes from which our children come. Therefore the greater the necesesity for sound, sincere Bible teaching as the sheet anchor of Christian teaching in the nation’s schools and as the bulwark of our free and priceless heritage. I am convinced that our schools must play a still greater part in seeking to promote the establishment of international amity and uni-
versal peace. Teachers, working nationally and internationally, are the most powerful agents to attempt the accomplishment of this stupendous task.” —Mr Angus Roberts, M.C., President of the National Union of Teachers.
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Waipa Post, Volume 42, Issue 3304, 2 June 1931, Page 8
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