ABSTRACT
The church, the family, the local community and the teacher—all have their part to play in imparting religious instruction to the young. This chapter explains about the background conditions that led to the religious clauses of the Act—which undoubtedly regard religious worship and knowledge as powerful, potential educators of the nation. It also explains about some of the foreground factors which led to the acceptance of this particular embodiment of Christian hopes. Nobody starting from scratch would ever have thought up the religious clauses of the 1944 Act. The chances of the religious settlement of the 1944 Act working during the post-war years were much enhanced by the courage, optimism and depth brought by the war itself. Compulsory worship and instruction, freedom of time-tabling for religious teaching, the fact of inspection, all mean that religion is placed more nearly on a par with the rest of the curriculum than ever before.
