Polly Toynbee Quote

There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing them over to be taught by the religious.

Polly Toynbee

There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing them over to be taught by the religious.

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About Polly Toynbee

Mary Louisa "Polly" Toynbee (; born 27 December 1946) is a British journalist and writer. She has been a columnist for The Guardian newspaper since 1998.
She is a social democrat and was a candidate for the Social Democratic Party in the 1983 general election. She now broadly supports the Labour Party, although she was critical of its left-wing former leader, Jeremy Corbyn.
Toynbee previously worked as social affairs editor for the BBC and also for The Independent newspaper. She is vice-president of Humanists UK, having previously served as its president between 2007 and 2012. She was named Columnist of the Year at the 2007 British Press Awards. She became a patron of right-to-die organization My Death My Decision in 2021.