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hatedbythemail · 19-10-2006, 20:05

i follow my own morality which will be informed by all sorts of things but i would think mainly from life experience, exploring ideas etc. christian heritage may well play a part in that but thats entirely different to faith informing education, or more importantly a particular faith informing education.

as for the idea that no education or institution is philosophically neutral then i guess you're right. but it becomes a very reductionist argument. it depends of course if you believe in society, the idea of shared aims and values to give a broad consensus (within which people can and will deviate). and to my mind incognitas is right that you can teach science, maths - the 'hard' subjects (not harder!) - without religion being of essence (and yes i am dismissing creationism but then again even that could be discussed and set against the findings of rational science). when it comes to literature, history, geo-politics, then religion is a part of all those subjects, but study of them need not favour one particular faith.

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hatedbythemail Permanently Banned Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 2,337	Re: School forces girls to wear head scarves i follow my own morality which will be informed by all sorts of things but i would think mainly from life experience, exploring ideas etc. christian heritage may well play a part in that but thats entirely different to faith informing education, or more importantly a particular faith informing education. as for the idea that no education or institution is philosophically neutral then i guess you're right. but it becomes a very reductionist argument. it depends of course if you believe in society, the idea of shared aims and values to give a broad consensus (within which people can and will deviate). and to my mind incognitas is right that you can teach science, maths - the 'hard' subjects (not harder!) - without religion being of essence (and yes i am dismissing creationism but then again even that could be discussed and set against the findings of rational science). when it comes to literature, history, geo-politics, then religion is a part of all those subjects, but study of them need not favour one particular faith.