Dr Morrison

Principal of the Scotch College, Victoria, gave the following evidence on this point before the Victorian Education Commission. He said, "The exclusion of Biblical teaching from the State schools curriculum had a most detrimental effect on a boy's training. Children remained ignorant of a branch of Education which coloured and impregnated the best English literature from Chaucer clown to the present time. The alleged difficulty was purely theoretical—it had been created by theorists and politicians, and not by practical men, who had overcome the difficulty.