Religion in the schools

Abstract

Religious education in English schools did not begin in 1944 or, indeed in 1870. In fact it might be claimed that in its origins English education was both religious and technical — or at least vocational — since its first aim was to train clerics and that meant, in the medieval context, men to serve the state in finance and administration as well as men to serve the church. Of course this education was for the few, for the very few, but it is worth remembering that it was the only road by which a poor boy could escape from the narrow environment to which his birth would otherwise have confined him.

Citation

Short, E. (1970), "Religion in the schools", Education + Training, Vol. 12 No. 4, pp. 129-137. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb001596