Objections to the Education Bill, 1906, in Principle and in Detail (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Objections to the Education Bill, 1906, in Principle and in Detail First of all, then, the Bill "establishes" one particular kind of State religious teaching in the State schools at the expense of every other - the kind called "Undenominational," and miscalled "Simple Bible Teaching." I would respectfully but urgently ask that this latter phrase might be banished, in the sense which it is at present made to bear, from among our popular terms. It is utterly misleading. You can teach children the Bible or religion simply only by teaching positive religious opinions in an uncontroversial manner, without giving the reasons pro or con, which justify or are supposed to justify the opinions. That is what is called teaching dogmatically - "dogma" meaning the established religious truths which are taken for granted in some religious society. The dogmas may be Unitarian, or Roman Catholic, or Anabaptist, or Anglican. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.