Do you think schools should teach religon?

in terms of culture and history, yes. in terms of impact on literature and art, yes. in terms of theory, scientific truths, etc. NO.

In NSW, Australia, there are two types of religious education.

General Religion Education (GRE) is the academic study of religion, its impact on the world, history and culture. From this students gain an understanding of the cultural backgrounds of others, an understanding of other belief systems and a better understanding of the world.

Special Religion Education (SRE) is faith-based teaching, taught by church volunteers who come into the school for an hour a week. Your parents must consent for you to do this and nominate a religion. Those who aren’t catered for have “private study” at this time.

My personal opinion is that GRE is good, and I’m happy to teach it. I have many problems with SRE in schools, but unfortunately it is mandatory here.

i think that only private schools should teach religon. Because private schools usally are based on a religon such as a catholic school or a prodastint school.

but public school should not teach religon because most of the children probally dont believe in that religon anyways and parents would have a hard time with it.

As someone who had no background in religion, I suffered in my literature and music courses because I didn’t understand the references that were being made.

I wish that comparative religions had been taught in school for that reason. Unfortunately, many religions are insecure. Their believers fear that exposure to other religions will result in lambs straying from the herd. Unfortunately, some educators would fail to conceal their preference, so the course may skew towards one religion. If these two misfortunes could be prevented, I think everyone would benefit from mutual understanding and historical enrichment.

Any good school system should. However, it is not right to mark any as better or give any religion special attention. In my freshman year of high school I remember learning about Christianity, Judaism, Taoism, Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism, Confusionism, and others…and we spent significant time on each. We had followers of Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, and Islam speak to the class. Religion is essential to culture and consequently essential to understanding many classes such as history, literature, and music. However, I am strongly against closed minded or unbalanced religious curriculum.

As a world literature teacher, I often found myself teaching religion as well. I found that my students, especially when studying ancient literature like myths and folklore, needed to understand that what they were studying was the culture’s religious identity – in that it depicted how they as a people came into existence, their relationship with their gods, their morality, etc. This understanding allowed them to make greater connections and deepen their understanding of literature we studied later in the year. Without creating this level of understanding, I believe they would have been losing a large piece of what makes literature so fascinating.

I found quickly that by approaching the context of religion in an academic manner appeased parents who otherwise might have had an issue with what I was doing.

I think young people would benefit from an exploration of the world’s various religions, and the country would certainly benefit from greater understanding, but it would be tough to pull off. Finding teachers who were qualified to discuss the subject without interjecting their own point of view would be challenging, and many people would protest a religion class that didn’t give precedence to Christianity.

As a Christian, I believe that we should put prayer back into school. I also believe that it would not hurt for students to know Bible stories or to even learn bible verses. I don’t think that it would hurt the students. As a teacher, I understand why we don’t have these things in school. Would be nice, though.

The Bible is the one, and only history, literature, book of poems, and book of wisdom that covers it all, providing eye witness accounts of the times, and giving you a diverse look into past, and present world religions. (paganism included).

Why not utilize the greatest (text) book ever given to, and published for us.

It is a curriculum so well balanced you would be hard pressed to duplicate it in separate subjects.

Public schools should not teach any religion since they will be unable to teach about all the different types of religion. Private (faith based) schools can definitely teach religion.

I don’t really think that religion should be taught in schools. It is important to learn about background religions when learning about like the Crusades, but otherwise I think that it should be separate.