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Originally Posted by andyl
I can cope with being illiberal then! I do not believe in Church intervention - of whatever religion - in schooling. I do believe in learning about and respecting the world's religions (liberal credentials reinstated!) and the people who practice them.
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Does your respect of world religions extend to respecting the fact that many people want there to be a religious dimension to their children's education that can't be obtained in a secular school?
Pholosophically speaking, it is an essentially Greek notion that the material and the spiritual life can/should be kept separate. It certainly isn't the view in Islamic, Jewish or Christian philosophy, which is firmly of the view that there is no such dichotomy.
By the way, I feel compelled to point out once more that without Church intervention in schooling, education in this country would be a wholly different ball game today, and a whole lot more kids would have died down mines and up chimneys.