THE EDUCATION MEASURE.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume I, Issue 24, 11 October 1873, Page 8

THE EDUCATION MEASURE.

Irom the Auckland ' Uerald ') It will be well for those who object to the province dealing with education and who cry out for a national sy Bte.n,8 te.n, to study the measure brought before the Assembly. The large and difficult question of religious instruction is dealt with iv a summary, but we fear vetv impracticable way. .Parents and guardians -meaning, we presum/ the school committees-are to decide whether or not the children should receive a certain amount of religious instruction at the public schools, to be given either at the beginning or end, or at both beginning and end, of the secular education. We scarcely think the bill worth the paper ou which it is printed and regret that so much time and labor should have been devoted to its production. As it stands, the bill is a lifeless skeleton. Its dry bones can only be shaken and clothed with vitality by the vulgar dtocess of taxation. On the Provincial Councils is again thrown the odium of finding, by direct taxation, the means of putting the act into operation, lhe bill is prodigal in its provisions to this end. The choice is wide, but we cannot help asking if this be all that the Genteral Government has to give for the education of the colony, why trouble themselves and the hundred senators in both Houses with its conside-