RE: Indoctrinating Children in Religion
March 9, 2015 at 6:15 pm
(This post was last modified: March 9, 2015 at 6:17 pm by Zenith.)
I've read the first posts of this thread and I'm thinking... how idealistic it would be to have it only like this:
In my country, a lot of people believe that it's the STATE's responsibility to educate the children, not the parent's, and the fact that "many times both parents have jobs, so they don't have time to spend with their children!" is actually justification enough to throw it all on the shoulders of the schools to educate children in religion as well. So they don't have time to go to church, they don't send their children to church, but they expect that the priests come into the school to "educate" all children into the same religion. It's said that the religious education (basically, indoctrination) is invaluable to the formation of children, something like "no child must be left behind".
I really wished people here were generally / all of the opinion that it's the parents' own responsibility to educate their children the way they want, not the state to educate them the way the (majority of the) parents want. But I think this has been a tradition for many years.
Quote:parents have some special "right" to treat their kids the way they desire ... as if kids are just objects/property and not individuals with their own rights to free thinking.
In my country, a lot of people believe that it's the STATE's responsibility to educate the children, not the parent's, and the fact that "many times both parents have jobs, so they don't have time to spend with their children!" is actually justification enough to throw it all on the shoulders of the schools to educate children in religion as well. So they don't have time to go to church, they don't send their children to church, but they expect that the priests come into the school to "educate" all children into the same religion. It's said that the religious education (basically, indoctrination) is invaluable to the formation of children, something like "no child must be left behind".
I really wished people here were generally / all of the opinion that it's the parents' own responsibility to educate their children the way they want, not the state to educate them the way the (majority of the) parents want. But I think this has been a tradition for many years.
