ABSTRACT
In an article in the Journal of the African Society there is an account of a school in Tanganyika whose curriculum was based on agriculture, animal husbandry, hygiene, and handicrafts. The Tanganyika school was also prepared to do without reading and writing. In a great many schools in Natal and elsewhere the children drop off as soon as they have learned to read and write. Accordingly if Christianity is an interest in the minds of the children who come to school and of the people who send them, this intellectual side of the Christian religion is a legitimate subject for school study. The real argument for any subject to be in a school curriculum must be in the last analysis an educational one. But in England the case for the Bible in the schools has scarcely ever been argued from the educational standpoint.
