The Truth About Secular Education

Excerpt from The Truth About Secular Education

The aim of the following essay is to elucidate several points n connection with our system of education about which the most improper and injurious fallacies are current among us. Various circumstances have forced the question of education upon our notice at the present time. The settlement of 1870 could not aim to be a final and ideal scheme, because it had to effect a compromise between religious sects, whose strength and fortunes were subject to variation. A good compromise has been well defined as a manoeuvre by which you take all you can get of a good thing, and wait until you can get more. The two parties to the compromise in 1870 may be described as the party that wanted much religious dogma taught in the schools and the party that would be content with little a third party.