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I think National and Compulsory Education must be secular, and with facilities for the denominations to add their particular tenets. My objection to this Bill (Mr. Birrell's Bill)
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And again in 1909, when another of our Liberal practitioners was handling the subject:
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I object altogether to the State teaching religion. I would have it teach secular matters only, and leave the religious teaching entirely to the clergy, who should undertake it at their own expense. This is the only fair plan--fair to all. The State gives, and pays for, religious teaching which I do not regard as being worth anything at all. It is worse than useless. Real religious teaching can only be given by the Church, and when Christ told us to go and teach, He did not mean mathematics and geography.