Education & faith

[Castiel]

Maybe I read it wrong, but I thought you were suggesting I implied all of the points you made, and I was asking you to cite where I did.

Apologies if I did misunderstand.

No worries, I was merely giving examples, not stating that is what you implied.

Teaching that there is such a thing as religion and explaining what it is, is the limit of what should be taught about religion in my opinion. It certainly shouldn't be taught in the same way as a faith school would, i.e. "Today children we're doing history. 4500 years ago Noah built an ark...".

I don't think you will find any state sponsored faith school teaching Genesis in History.

Don't believe everything the Daily Mail and their ilk suggests is common practice.

I extrapolated it from figures that suggest the majority of Brits are non-practicing, and the number of those claiming non-religious has been climbing.

I am non-religious, yet support faith schools and in fact my Son attends a Catholic School although he is not a Catholic, so I wouldn't put too much faith in extrapolating anything from dubious polls.

 

[Scrutinize]

The first few pages of this thread felt like reading a daily mail story with people posting agenda on their own distaste for religion and trying to pass this off as fact i.e. I don't believe faith schools should exist therefore lets ban them. I just wanted to post this, I do not intend to enter into the debate.

 

[Sinny]

Isn't a school a place of factual learning?

Why does it have to be factual to be interesting?

Do you read a book because it contains facts?

It's making kid's aware of other cultures out there which can be interesting, yet I don't think it should be a mandatory GCSE, it should stop after a few years of Secondary school and kid's given the option if they wish to carry on.

 

[Vonhelmet]

Why does it have to be factual to be interesting?

Do you read a book because it contains facts?

See: The Life of Pi by Yann Martel.

 

[=XDC=FluphyBunny]

Schools are meant to teach not preach. RE is a lesson taught in schools and I don't believe a faith school is capable of teaching without bias.

I've known a few people go for jobs in teaching at catholic faith schools. The only thing the interviewer's were interested in was their religion - church attendence etc. Really not convinced thats right either.

On the plus side I work near a catholic school and they had a fancy dress day, one of the kids came in dressed as Jesus lol He went around saying 'i have arisen, buy me beer'