The Liberty of Teaching Vindicated: Reflections and Proposals on the Subject of Irish National Education ; with an Introd. Letter to the Right Honourable Wm. E. Gladstone, M.P.

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W.B. Kelly, 1865 - 173 páginas
 

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Página xxv - In them the importance of religion is constantly impressed upon the minds of the children, through works calculated to promote good principles, and fill the heart with a love of religion, but which are so compiled as not to clash with the doctrines of any particular class of Christians. The children are thus prepared for those more strict religious exercises which it is the peculiar province of the ministers of religion to superintend or direct...
Página 32 - ... aid from the public will be dependent. They will refuse all applications in which the following objects are not locally provided for : — 1st. A fund sufficient for the annual repairs of the school-house and furniture. 2nd. A permanent salary for the Master, not less than pounds.
Página 45 - School-room or not ; but if they do not allow it in the School-room, the Children whose parents or guardians so desire, must be allowed to absent themselves from the School, at reasonable times, for the purpose of receiving such instruction ELSEWHERE.
Página 31 - ... the various Reports of the Commissioners of Education, recommended a system to be adopted, which should afford, if possible, a combined literary and a separate religious education, and should be capable of being so far adapted to the views of the religious persusaions which prevail in Ireland, as to render it, in truth, a system of national education for the poorer classes of the community.
Página 33 - Although it is not designed to exclude from the list of books for the combined instruction such portions of Sacred History, or of religious or moral teaching, as may be approved of by the Board, it is to be understood that this is by no means intended to convey a perfect and sufficient religious education, or to supersede the necessity of separate religious instruction on the day set apart for that purpose.
Página 33 - The Board will be intrusted with the absolute control over the funds which may be annually voted by Parliament, which they shall apply to the following purposes:— 1st. Granting aid for the erection of Schools, subject to the conditions hereinbefore specified.
Página 166 - Scripture lessons being read in any of the national schools, nor do they allow them to be read during the time of secular or literary instruction, in any school attended by children whose parents or guardians object to their being so read.
Página 34 - ... Legislature. Parliament has already placed at his Excellency's disposal a sum which may be available even in the course of the present year ; and as soon as the Board can be formed, it will be highly desirable that no time should be lost, with a view to the estimates of the ensuing year, in enabling such schools, already established, as are willing to subscribe to the conditions imposed, to put in their claims for protection and assistance ; and in receiving applications from parties desirous...
Página 31 - Church ; to attain the hitter, that it should consist of persons professing different religious opinions. " It is the intention of the Government, that the Board should exercise a complete control over the various Schools which may be erected under its auspices, or which having been already established, may hereafter place themselves under its management, and submit to its regulations.
Página 32 - They will require that the schools be kept open for a certain number of hours, on four or five days of the week, at the discretion of the Commissioners, for moral and literary education only ; and that the remaining one or two days in the week be set apart for giving separately, such religious education to the children, as may be approved of by the clergy of their respective persuasions.

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