ABSTRACT
This chapter examines some of the issues, goes beyond an account of provision of schooling and devotes rather more space and prominence to the wider concept of religious education and national identity. In the Middle Ages education was provided in cathedral and collegiate schools. The school reform of the Commission for National Education, was thus an attempt to revive the flagging fortunes of the country: a political, economic and intellectual revival. The post-Second World War separation of Church and State therefore is not a new phenomenon, but with religious education at first continuing to be available in secular state schools. The post-Second World War separation of Church and State therefore is not a new phenomenon, but with religious education at first continuing to be available in secular stat.
