Nonconformists debate state funded religious education in 1847
Speakers urge principle of secular education, safety of conscience clauses, and warn against expanding denominational schooling funded by taxes. A compromise proposes rate aided nonsectarian schools alongside existing denominational ones, with Bible teaching optional and governed by conscience clauses.
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House of Commons
Lord Russell
Macaulay
Richard
Arthur Munskit
Forster
Privy Council
Thra
Ile
Benjamin Scott
J. G. Rogers
Mr. Baines
Baines
Rogers
Winchester
Gladstone
CG. HL
Stunceos
England
Bumbledon
Education
Cheera
Irish Education Commission Report sparks Irish dispute
The Irish Education Commissioners' report prompts bitter reaction across press and public bodies in Ireland. The Presbyterian Assembly in Belfast debates the plan, warning it could ruin a national system and urging united non sectarian education while opposing denominational changes.
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Commission On Primary Education
Ireland
Royal Commission
Friends of the National System
General Assembly of the
Presbyterian Church
Belfast
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P. W. Chaypden
the Irish Education Commissioners