EDUCATION AND RELIGION
Sne,—Letters have appeared frequently of late in most daily and weekly papers stating certain opinions about Education and Religion. The writers agree that Post-war Britain should be a true, or truer than it has been, Christian State. Again, they agree that to carry this out, Religion must play an important part in Education be they do not seem to see that Religion should be the producer of Education.
Since I am a schoolboy, perhaps I should not claim a right to speak on the matter, or at least that is what some people would say, but I am sure that I, as a boy, can see better than most adults how young people look at Religion. I am sure that, not until children and adults realise that Christianity is not just one of the many divisions of life and means going to church on Sunday, but is a whole mode of life from which everything else is an offshoot (or should be), not until then will Britain or any other so-called Christian country fulfil those ideals on which they claim their Govern.
ment to be based.—Yours very sincerely, J. 0. CANDEL
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