ABSTRACT
From the moment when the State began to play an important part in education, controversy about the place of religion in the schools was inevitable. There are two great controversies about religion in school: the first, whether religion has any place there at all, the second concerning the sort of religion which should be taught. The Roman Catholic Church takes the extreme position, by demanding complete and absolute control of all religious teaching given to its children. There can be little doubt that all doctrinal matters are out of place in the school, because, bluntly, the boys are bored with them. At this point, a protest must be entered against the clause of the 1944 Education Act. The chief aim in Scripture teaching in the VIth form is to see that every boy, when he leaves school, is aware of the importance and value of possessing a set of moral principles by which he can test his actions.
