Dr Lloyd maintains that a teacher's commitment is not only compatible with but a necessary condition for successfully teaching religious understanding within the system of public education. As I am in sympathy with this thesis, I do not wish to argue against it but to add some further interpretation of it. Lloyd's thesis deals with a certain process of communication, specified in two directions: first as to its subject (‘religious understanding’), and secondly as to its context (the system of public education). His thesis contains two points: (1) the kind of communciation he has in mind is at least possible and (2) the necessary condition for its success is the commitment of the teacher.