Dialogue Document
Shared Convictions About Education 1970
Shared Convictions About Education: United Methodist/Roman Catholic Dialogue, December 1970
1. An adequate education is one of the most indispensable achievements for life in the modern world, and it is a crucial responsibility of the entire society to make it possible for every child to obtain such an education.
2. The public school is the chief instrument by means of which our society attempts to make an adequate education available to all children. It is not only the agency of education, bit if others fail, it must take up their task. It must be open to all on an equal basis, without discrimination because of race, religion, national origin, sex, or economic class.
3. It is the right and responsibility of parents to choose the kind of education their children shall have, particularly what understanding of the nature and duty of man they shall be taught. Parents my delegate this responsibility to teachers in public or private schools, but it remains the parents' right and should not be usurped by others.
4. Our entire society is and should be taxed for the expenses of education through various modes of taxation, local, state and federal. Taxes paid by all the people under duress of law must be used in ways that are essentially and actually amenable to public control for benefits that are available to all without discrimination.