The case against faith schools | Why do humanists campaign against religiously segregated schools?
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- čas přidán 28. 06. 2024
- Watch Ruth Wareham and Jay Harman set out the humanist arguments against faith schools.
Ruth Wareham was the Education Campaigns Manager at Humanists UK from 2018 to 2021. Before joining Humanists UK she was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow on the [Faith Schooling: Principles and Policies project] (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/a...) based in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick.
Jay Harman was Education Campaigns Manager at Humanists UK from 2015 to 2018.
I couldn’t agree with this position more. I think faith schools should be abolished here in the UK, I would vote for that 100%
The Anglican and Catholic schools were a legacy, and then Blair created new ones for different faiths, which meant more religion and sectarianism, not multi culturalism. Before, Muslims and Hindus went to separate schools as they lived in the same inner city areas. Then, many of them started earning more and started moving out to the suburbs and attending mostly white schools. So they started to mix more. Then, separate Jewish, Hindu, and Muslim schools were used to isolate them again.
segregation drives division and could lead to hatred... as said remove the religion and young minds can grow free together
It’s 5th 6th 7th century mentality passed on from peer to peer. Hard to eradicate but hopefully in modern times it will be , as religion really has no place in the 21st century age of reasoning and evidence not dogmatic blind faith .
freedom of religion is good. religion is bad. stop turning atheism into a faith
Why eradicate it? People can believe what they like as long as it's not forced upon them.
Our three boys were not indoctrinated into any religion, their questions were answered without bias. Needless to say they are all atheists even though they attended the local CofE school. Thankfully at their school religion was taught but not rammed down their throats - at the parents evening when he was about 10, his RE teacher told us that he declared that he didn’t believe in god. She said she told him what she believed, he told her that he still didn’t believe and they agreed to differ. Not a bad outcome from a decent teacher.
That's all well & good, but just be watchful as some Atheists will have a tendency towards Nihilism. Without the social structure that a religion can bring to a community this Atheistic blank slate could cause potential problems of life meaning & direction?
@@King_Alfred_849 We simply haven’t seen any evidence for anything supernatural, that’s it.
@Jack bassman I will give you one word as proof for the Supernatural........
"Infinity "
You cannot rationalise out of that one. Simple
@@King_Alfred_849 completely irrelevant.
@Jack bassman No its not! You want rational evidence of a supernatural God or being or they/it does not exist! I'm letting you know that our very existence including infinity in our reality, will never be able to be explained or fully rationally understood! So proving that our supposed concrete & real life cannot be fully rationalised & backed up by your beloved evidence!
So therefore you have to accept that you cannot simply say that there is no God or Supernatural being just because you rationally need evidence for it, when our very existence includes irrational infinity! Do you get what I'm trying to say?