A bit difficult to teach critical thinking in religious schools
Religion requires you to not have critical thinking skills at all
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Emperor@feddit.uk 4 months ago
What my Dad always called “the elastic curriculum” - some politician gets a bug up their ass and demand schools teach it (eg BoJo and Latin). At least this weaves through different subjects so could be made to work. Still, it must be a bit difficult to teach critical thinking in religious schools.
breadsmasher@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Emperor@feddit.uk 4 months ago
I went to a Catholic school - they did their level best not to avoid anything resembling it (and sex education).
breadsmasher@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Just so I understand, the catholic school you attended did teach critical thinking and sex education?
turtlepower@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Mine did, too. Hell, I had a 4th grade teacher that taught the class how to meditate during the last 5-10 minutes of class. She would turn off the lights, have us put our heads down on our desk and would put on a CD with new age bell/chime/gong meditation music, and she would talk us through guided meditations; simple visualization and relaxation. She also taught us to stand up and speak out when we saw someone doing something bad: “You are doing the wrong thing!”
name_NULL111653@pawb.social 4 months ago
My evangelical school did a “classical education” and made the mistake of actually having some critical thinking after all the indoctrination. I’m a pagan leftist transgender homosexual now.
then_three_more@lemmy.world 4 months ago
must be a bit difficult to teach critical thinking in religious schools.
Which is why all religious schools should be banned.
Zip2@feddit.uk 4 months ago
And that’s why religious schools need to stop, and the Church of England needs to be disestablished.