On Education Part II by Brighouse – Should Governments Support Religious School?
Brighouse main idea of the book is to educate children in order to help them lead a life that will flourish. In Part II chapter five, the issue of the government supporting religious schools is evaluated. He discusses the importance of adapting some ways that resemble the system of the UK, where religious schools are funded through the government. He believes supporting religious schools will create a diversity, and evolved into an environment where children can in fact flourish. Exposing children to different ways of life than their own cultivates autonomy, and self-governing individuals. However, schools have to be careful not to endorse or condemns religious
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Brighouse explains how this hinders against our children's autonomy. The issue is explained by bringing up the decision parents have to make when enrolling their children into school. The choices are between sectarian religious schools or public secular schools. The children that are send to the religious school will only see one way of life. Not having those children be part of public school, also denies the opportunity to the children in the public system to see other ways of life. Making his point that school need to facilitate diversity.
In contrary to the UK, where preference is given to students that are raised in the faith the school sponsors, Brighouse believes that in order to create an autonomy leading environment any student should be allowed in without any religious pre-requisites.
I agree with Brighouse that the United States would benefit from emulating certain aspects of the United Kingdoms' educational system. It is important to create a diverse environment in our schools. We live in a world of diversity. We should teach our children to be accepting of other religions, culture and traditions.
I am convinced of the importance in autonomy in our children's character. Having religious studies gives the opportunity to find, explore and confirm or contradict believes that will build the individuals
Most private schools in America right now are run by religious organizations. There has been a lot of controversy over this issue mainly because of the importance of an education in a modern society. School choice initiatives are based on the premise that allowing parents to choose what schools their children attend is not only the right thing to do, but is also an important way for improving education. Instead of a one-size-fits-all model, School choice programs offer parents various
...sts discovered when they tried to cater to the individual needs of immigrants, to emphasize one objective is to sacrifice the other. The plight of blacks and women in the first part of the 20th century suggests that even the noblest of philosophies are not guaranteed to serve individuals in practice. Further, federal intervention into education, such as with the No Child Left Behind Act, should give educators pause to question what educational oversights would cause the federal government to intervene in its historical role as protector of the overlooked and unnoticed. Finally, the success of Catholic schools in the 1950’s and 1960’s is suggestive of the value of a standard, academic curriculum, but one must remember that Catholic schools enjoy the luxury of choosing the students they educate.
Shelley Burtt argues that liberal democratic ideals are best honored when parents are allowed to structure their children’s education through an opt-out option in ways compatible with their religious beliefs. This strong principle of parental deference under which most parental objections to particular aspects of public school curriculum should be both respected and accommodated. Overall I believe her argument is pretty weak and there should be no parents deference when it comes to religious reasons in public schools.
“I tell them that another important thing I learned in first grade was schools could be a place to bring people together - kids of all races and backgrounds. That’s the work I focus on now, connecting our children through their schools. Its my way of continuing what God set in motion forty years ago when He led me up the steps of William Frantz Public School and into a new world with my teacher, Mrs. Henry-- a world that under His protection has reached far beyond just the two of us in that classroom.” (Bridges) With the right guidance plus the right attitude anyone can go somewhere in life. It doesn’t matter where anyone is headed as long as the necessary steps are taken, which results in guaranteed success.
For many in education, both teachers and students, religious education is a controversial subject. It is neither a core or foundation subject: it is described simply as being ‘part of the basic curriculum’, and until 1988 it was the only subject that was required to be taught at all (Ashton 2000). The presence of children of different faiths in many schools, gives the study of religion a reality, which is more difficult to achieve when all the children are at least nominally of Christian background or of no faith at all (Dean 2001). However, an understanding of other World religions is necessary in order that a child can understand what is happening in the World around them. The four lesson plans have been based upon the Derbyshire Agreed
So how does a seemingly insular Catholic school compete with a multirelgious and multicultural community? This is perhaps the biggest challenge a Catholic school system will face, not all students in a school will practice Catholicism, they may not have any religious beliefs at all or they may practice a different religion altogether. How does a school foster “cultural openness… without being lukewarm or extremist” (Vatican, 2014) while also maintaining their aims. As complicated a challenge as this is, there is a relatively simple solution, through teaching and study students are learning about diverse societies, they are learning about becoming global citizens and their role in society. Robert Davis argued that “the price Catholic schools have had to pay for their accreditation as appropriate centres for the ‘delivery’ of the modern curriculum is a restriction of their Catholicity to those features of school life where secular society is prepared to permit the manifestation of Catholic ideas – mainly worship, ethos and Religious education.”
The schools are supported by all taxpayers, and therefore should be free of religious observances and coercion. They believe forming prayers in public schools violates the rights and wishes of parents. Religion in schools will not force a child to partake in anything they do not want to; it simply gives the religious students in school the opportunity to freely express their religion on a nonpartisan basis. promoting religion reinforces ethics, values, and morality for students and teachers. An ongoing issue in many public schools is violence.
Religion can be taught in many ways through songs, arts and crafts, read aloud and many other activities. Christianity is the most popular religion in the world, this religion has no strict or specific ritual. Most children who attend public schools are Christians but what about the other religiously different peers, who dress differently or speak differently. The percentage of Muslims and Hindus are on the rise, children should learn about the growing diversity of religion within their own country. The world’s greatest problem doesn’t result from being unable to read and write.
Teaching a religion class would be beneficial because the students would be more educated on other people’s religious views. This would allow the students to understand why other students act, dress, and think the way that they do. This deeper understanding of their fellow classmates would help the student to be more accepting from different ethnic backgrounds. Students should have a religious class at the start of their high school education. At these age students have numerous social barriers between people with different ethnic values.
Education is an innovative method that promotes people’s knowledge on real world application. It displays a person’s notional belief in a logical instruction that is being given. Without education, the world would lack knowledge on obtaining or fulfilling their purpose in life. As a Christian educator, I believe that every person on this earth holds value to the world. There embedded value, allows the world to move in the direction in which God plans it to do.
Religion should not be taught in school for many reasons because it will cost a lot of problems, The teachers don’t know enough about other religion other than their own, There are various religion so it would be impossible to teach all of the religion, There too many differences between religions and finally would exclude atheist people being comfortable. In these four reasons, you can conclude that having a religion has a subject in our
Education and religion are two inseparable topics that tend to lead to confusion and controversy when they are placed upon each other. Since the beginning, the United States of America has been built upon religion. Hence the term, “God” being put into famous writings such as the Pledge of Allegiance and the Constitution. However, as time goes on the number of diversity in religion and has risen. In addition, it has become a debate on whether or not religion should be allowed into the new current developing school systems.
University of Michigan. “Religion in Schools: A look at how religious practices influence education.” .
...meone of their rights and taking them away. It is discrimination against whichever religion is not taught. While prayer and religion may help aid in development, not every child or every person will develop the same. Different backgrounds, including religion and culture, produce different results. Religion should not be allowed in public schools, it would cause more harm than it will do good.
Dan Dennette 's speech about teaching all religions in schools has some truth to it. I do think that all schools should teach about religion. It is critical for students to learn about their religion