The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 79
The League's Affirmations
The League's Affirmations.
The League affirms:—
(1) | That it will resist any attempt to interfere with [unclear: o] purely secular system of State education. |
(2) | That in matters of religion strict neutrality is [unclear: the] only just attitude that a State can assume tor its citizens. |
(3) | That to introduce any form of religious [unclear: instruction] into our State system of education would be [unclear: debut] mental to the best interests of the schools, [unclear: leadi] to sectarian strife among the children, and [unclear: imp] ing a religious test upon the teachers. |
(4) | That to determine the question of religious [unclear: instru] tion, or Bible-reading, in schools by means [unclear: of] referendum would be absolutely subversive of the neutrality of the State in matters of religion. |
(5) | That the Nelson system, even if it be within [unclear: the] letter of the Education Act, is an ingenious [unclear: evas] of its real spirit and intent, and that the [unclear: League] will oppose this innovation. |
(6) | That the League is strongly opposed to the [unclear: introduction] of the New South Wales text-book into [unclear: the] State schools of the Dominion. |