In the inaugural Isaac Armitage lecture, Andrew Cameron considers what Christian education might look like in a pluralistic society.

The title of my talk, ‘Anglican Schooling in a Pluralistic Society’, could of course mean anything. But I want to talk about what Anglican schools are for, in a world where many people believe many different things. Let me assume at the outset that a church school has some sort of intention to ‘bless the world’ somehow. I want us to think about how that ‘blessing’ might work. I’ll put my discussion into the context of what seems to me an agonisingly difficult debate in modern Australia: the place of so-called ‘values’ in our school education. Considering Armitage’s love of the Old Boys Union, his endowment is, most likely, a remembrance of something powerful that happened to him while here, and in this way is a symbolic reminder that something way beyond the course curricula can happen to a child at school. For schools are places of moral formation.

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