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 374 FOSTER WATSON : THE FREEDOM OF THE TEACHER, ETC. us is even more vital. Should not teachers have a part in deciding whether secularisation of the schools is compatible with the full humanistic concept of education ? May they be free to teach of their best and highest in all subjects except one ? The teaching of religion in the schools is a diffi- cult one, but its scope and limits and methods can, in my opinion, never be settled satisfactorily without consultation of those whose life-study is the art of education.