Margaret Knight
Aberdeen, Scotland, 1903 - 1983
It was in her third year at the University of Cambridge that Margaret Knight found the moral courage, as she put it, to finally abandon the religious beliefs which had long made her uneasy. Her ideology of morals without religion was considered radical at the time. When she later broadcast on BBC radio her views provoked a public outcry.
Margaret moved to Aberdeen, and in 1938 she took up a post at the University of Aberdeen lecturing in psychology, alongside her husband who was Professor of Psychology. In January 1955 Margaret stunned post-war Britain by suggesting, in two talks broadcast on the BBC’s Home Service, that moral education should be uncoupled from religious education. Although attacked by many newspapers for her views, she also gained a strong following and went on to publish two humanist books.
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