We must do away with text-book teachers.
CANTELUPE _is opening out a little in spite of himself._
CANTELUPE. I'm waiting for our opinions to differ.
TREBELL. [_Businesslike again._] I'll send you a draft of the statutes I
propose within a week. Meanwhile shall I put the offer this way. If I accept
your tests will you accept mine?
CANTELUPE. What are yours?
TREBELL. I believe if one provides for efficiency one provides for the best
part of truth ... honesty of statement. I shall hope for a little more
elasticity in your dogmas than Becket or Cranmer or Laud would have allowed.
When you've a chance to re-formulate the reasons of your faith for the
benefit of men teaching mathematics and science and history and political
economy, you won't neglect to answer or allow for criticisms and doubts. I
don't see why ... in spite of all the evidence to the contrary ... such a
thing as progress in a definite religious faith is impossible.
CANTELUPE. Progress is a soiled word. [_And now he weighs his words._] I
shall be very glad to accept on the Church's behalf control of the teaching
of teachers in these colleges.
TREBELL. Good. I want the best men.
CANTELUPE. You are surprisingly inexperienced if you think that creeds can
ever become mere forms except to those who have none.
TREBELL. But teaching--true teaching--is learning, and the wish to know is
going to prevail against any creed .
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