Saturday, August 31, 2024

Religious Teaching, New Zealand Schools in the 1950s

Hi there

When I was a kid, the schools had a religious person come in for an hour a week to tell the class about the bible.  It was usually someone from the Salvation Army.

I remember when I was about eight years old, at Newtown School  ...

The kids in my class had just opened their eyes after a prayer.

A boy frantically waved his hand.  "Jenny had her eyes open," he tattle-taled to the Salvation Army captain.

The captain pondered this.  "And how do you know she had her eyes open, Tommy?  Unless you had your eyes open too?"

"Oooooh..."  We kids were so over-awed by the Salvation Army captain's cleverness....


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