APPROACH TO EDUCATION.

Waiapu Church Gazette, Volume 35, Issue 6, 1 August 1944, Page 9

APPROACH TO EDUCATION.

"Education must be either religious or atheistic m tendency— it is not possible to provide a neutral, secular education and then add religion on to it, either m or out of school," said the Rev. H. W. Austin, Wariganui, speaking at the Wellington Diocesan Synod. What was required was a pervadring spiritual influence, which would permeate the whole range of education and fair beyond it, he said. So-called secular subjects should be interpreted m the light of man's knowledge of the universe, which,for the Christian, meant knowledge of God. This would give a unified view of the world, enabling / children gradually to see how each department of study fitted m with the rest and how somewhere m the whole field there was, by God's purpose, a life worth living for every man if he would riiake it his aim m life to make his contribution to the common -''good. ;• Even m Church schools, at present, religion was just something tacked on to the rest of the timetable by one or two specialists, instead of a unified outlook brought to bear on every subject and activity.