Unusually for me, I'm going to stick my head above the parapet and say that I have no problem with the concept of "faith schools" (I actually have a bigger problem with dear old Prof Dawkins but that's by the by!). If parents wish their kids to be educated with the background of the family faith, then that's their prerogative - just IMHO! Please don't throw rotten tomatoes at me!

Mandy

Unusually for me, I'm going to stick my head above the parapet and say that I have no problem with the concept of "faith schools" (I actually have a bigger problem with dear old Prof Dawkins but that's by the by!). If parents wish their kids to be educated with the background of the family faith, then that's their prerogative - just IMHO! Please don't throw rotten tomatoes at me!
Mandy

Unusually for me, I'm going to stick my head above the parapet and say that I have no problem with the concept of "faith schools" (I actually have a bigger problem with dear old Prof Dawkins but that's by the by!). If parents wish their kids to be educated with the background of the family faith, then that's their prerogative - just IMHO! Please don't throw rotten tomatoes at me!

Mandy

quietgirl wrote:
Like many such issues surrounding parenthood vs collective care of duty to minors, balance and personal reponsibility seem key to me.
In fact having secular schools is quite different from having what Dawkins set up:
Will atheism be enforced? Hmmm.
www.guardian.co.uk/education/2011/jun/05...ns-grayling-ferguson

How is that any different from a university with ties to the Anglican Church or a Catholic institution or A Muslim one?

Personally I respect anybody's right to have their children free from religious influence. OTOH I would not have the state eradicate schools because over and above the power of religion to brainwash kids, I fear the power of the State to control education standards to the point where religion MUST be actively opposed in education.

Then again, the type of home schooling and Xtian fundie tyranny in schools in the Midwest USA is equally repugnant.

But Dawkins is clearly aiming at a neo-conservative American economic model of education backed up with an emphasis on sciences and a heavy dose of anti-theism in his grand vision of a future without De Profundis by Oscar Wilde, without the Requiem Mass of mozart or the works of CS Lewis or Pico Di Mirandola or Dante or Blake or the paintings of Michaelangelo or even a Christmas party in elementary school.

Oh and then the other religions of Hinduism, Judaism, Sikhism, Buddhism and Islam would have to relinquish any mention of the religion inherent in their respective cultures too.

To think that Oscar Wilde could re-enter schoolrooms through more tolerant policies concerning the teaching of homosexuality only to be censored once more due to his religious writings of late life.

Bang goes Philip K Dick too.,

Catholic schools,Muslim schools etc .Are they there to divide?


www.channel4.com/programmes/faith-school-menace/4od

In fact having secular schools is quite different from having what Dawkins set up:
Will atheism be enforced? Hmmm.
www.guardian.co.uk/education/2011/jun/05...ns-grayling-ferguson

How is that any different from a university with ties to the Anglican Church or a Catholic institution or A Muslim one?

But Dawkins is clearly aiming at a neo-conservative American economic model of education backed up with an emphasis on sciences and a heavy dose of anti-theism in his grand vision of a future without De Profundis by Oscar Wilde, without the Requiem Mass of mozart or the works of CS Lewis or Pico Di Mirandola or Dante or Blake or the paintings of Michaelangelo or even a Christmas party in elementary school.