THE CHURCHES AND EDUCATION
Sta,—You state in the paragraph, " The Churches and Education," The Spectator, October 29th, that " on purely educational grounds the dual system should be ended once and for all." We hold that the only bad " dual system " is where there is a conflict between the two great influences in the formation of the child, the home and the school. People have every reason to fear the bad effects of discordance if their children are placed in their tender years under the influence of teachers remote from, perhaps unsympathetic towards, that which is the heart and centre of life for their parents and their home. That is why Catholic parents claim Catholic schools, staffed by Catholic teachers for Catholic children, for we maintain that a divided childhood between parents who teach one thing and teachers who teach another, this is what is wrong from a purely educational standpoint. Because we claim this elementary and reasonable arrangement, based on our rights as parents, is it just when the White Paper proposals ask us to pay large and indefinite sums ?—Yours
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