Religious Education After the War

Abstract

"THE Government White Paper on Educational Reconstruction declares that ''there has been a . very general wish, not confined to representatives of the Churches, that religious education should be given a more defined place in the life and work of the schools, springing from the desire . to revive the spiritual and personal values in our society and in our national tradition." To the indignation and, we may hope, the confusion of the now out-of-date materialists who still believe that scientific knowledge is man's most efficient weapon in the struggle of life, we are swinging back to the saner standpoint that the boy or girl who knows a great deal about science and very little else is unlikely to achieve the balance and harmony which is the true end of education. The Norwood Report is emphatic on this point"