Religion traditions

Religion
Religion in Australia
Education
Education is an important issue in the Catholic religion. Catholics believe
that their children should attend Catholic schools as they believe with their
children½s teaching should come the moral and spiritual Catholic values they
believe in. Education has always been a critical factor in the education
of youth, and after 1901 with funding for only secular schools was available.
Catholic½s as above did not want their children attending public schools, so
they payed the prices to send their children to Catholic schools.
There was an outburst of Catholics in Canberra as that was the only place
that would employee them, and this filled a number of Catholic schools.
Around 1956 some state aid was offered to the Catholic schools.
In 1962 the Goulburn Schools Strike occurred in which the government
request the school be shut down due to lack of boys toilets. The Bishops
and Priests shut down the schools sending the 2000 students from ...