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To the editor:
Although your editorial about the “rolling chapel” made some good points, I think you overlooked a couple of points which would make it be a good idea.
The purpose of education is the building of a majestic (we might say well rounded) character. The schools obviously fall down on that job, and they don’t even turn out graduates who are employable. The educators might claim that the idea is to stuff as many facts as possible into a great number of heads, and in this they may succeed. So whether it is facts or character that is the goal, the “rolling chapel” could really be a benefit, if (and this is a big IF) it would be totally open for the presentation of any form of religious belief or non-belief.
Your editorial says that we should leave religious education to the home or the church, and I couldn’t agree more, but what they usually get there is indoctrination in a fixed set of beliefs, the beliefs of the parents. Generally they have but two alternatives - to accept or rebel. By presenting a number of ideas, the rolling chapel would allow them to search for their own best understanding of truth.
I would guess that a Unitarian might be the ideal person to run such a forum, perhaps being able to be more open to the presentation of others’ points of view than anyone but a Buddhist. In a forum like this, however, there would have to be one firm rule - no one could be allowed to lord it over the other teachers as if that person had the only true truth - the real reality (although many, of course, would feel that they indeed did - but
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