Abstract
When the landmark education report Living and Learning (colloquially known as the Hall-Dennis Report) was presented to the Ontario Legislature in 1968, it outlined a series of recommendations advocating numerous child-centered reforms (such as open classrooms, special education, and the abolition of corporal punishment). Although the report did view the child as a “spiritual” being, it also carefully avoided any specific mention of most religious issues or sectarian divisions within the province. This stood in contrast to the fact that about a fifth of the briefs heard by the Hall-Dennis Committee were from groups representing various organized religions. The present study examines the role that these groups did play in advising the committee, and the modifications that were made to these recommendations by the committee in order to harmonize them with an increasingly secular society.
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