TEACHING RELIGION
SIR,—Many of those who are interested in education will have found food for thought in Mr. A. Victor Murray's article. There is one point, however, which he seems to ignore, and which is not without importance. Many of the young people of to-day who have little interest in religion
will agree that what " put them off " in their schooldays was the dogmatic teaching of Christianity as the only possible explanation of the facts of life. If some attempt were made in our schools to give pupils an under- standing of the various great religions of the world, as various efforts of man to reach truth, it is possible that interest in religion might revive. If the sole effect of the Education Act of 1944 is to make the teaching of dogmatic Christianity obligatory, the sole result will be to make children more and more sceptical as they learn that other views of life are possible.
16 The Close, Radlett, Herts.
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