Schools must be upfront on ethics

Updated March 16 2017 - 3:27pm, first published 12:23pm
Ethiics debate: Former Justice of the High Court Michael Kirby. Picture: Peter Braig
Ethiics debate: Former Justice of the High Court Michael Kirby. Picture: Peter Braig

When I was at school I went to "scripture" classes on Thursdays and church on Sundays. Scripture was taught at Fort Street High, a public school, by the Anglican Dean of Sydney, Stuart Barton Babbage. He became a lifelong friend. The Church of England class was by far the biggest. Catholics were few; but they had taken themselves off to their own schools. Jews were fewer still. They went to "non scripture", basically reading under supervision with pupils whose parents were non-religious. I liked the scripture class.

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