Debate on State funding of religious education and its dangers
A speech argues against taxing for religious instruction, warning that state paid schooling risks coercion and atheistic indoctrination. It cites German and American observations, cites Horace Mann, and calls for a national system combining secular and religious teaching with Bible use, forming The West London Parliamentary Association.
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Church of England
Committee of Council
Germany
Berlin
Horace Mann
The
Massachusetts
Board of Education
James Heywood
C. J. Wurtmore
L. Bevan
C. J. Wartmore
Stoner
Bennett
Greenwich
Panton Ham
West London Parliamentary Association
Conference at Northampton on secular and religious schooling
A Northampton conference of Nonconformist ministers and delegates, with about two hundred attendees, debated separating secular from religious instruction in state-aided schools. Proponents argued for church-led religious teaching. opponents warned against state run religion and the dangers of secular schooling.
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Northampton
College-street
R. W. Dale
J. Jenkyn Brown
Birmingham
Pee
Thomas Toller
E. Ashworth Briggs
Daventry
Liberal Party
Dunkley
Creaton
Payne
R. W. Date
Church of England
Church of Rome
Temperance
H. Marshall
Dale
Jenkyn Brown