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Show NOT AGNOSTICISM, BUT INDIFFERENCE A Seattle, minister complains that his Sunday school work is hindered by the agnostic attitude of the public schools. We are inclined to believe that v.hat he calls agnostic attitude is merely an attitude atti-tude of indifference. The ordinary school teacher differs little from the ordinary American in general.. gen-eral.. The teachers of the country are men and women of character as a rule, and the chances are that they are no more irreligious than the bulk of their countrymen. But the trouble is that no stress is laid on religion in the course of study. Teachers and children are only human, and . they conclude that religion is an unimportant afair. So they' give their time to what is demanded of them and become indifferent toward religion, and make it difficult for the good man of Seattle Ac fill his Sunday school classes. It will continue to be so as long as the present grotesque system of education is persisted in, a system which takes almost no note of the most important element in education moral training. Catholic Progress. |