Interessanter Ansatz:
Daniel Dennett:
My one policy proposal:
Education on world religions for
all our
children, in public and private schools, and
home schooling.
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my one policy proposal
education on world religions for all of our children, in public and private schools, and home schooling. what i'm proposing is, just as we require reading, writing, arithmetic and american history, we should have a curriculum on facts about all the religions of the world: about their history, about their creeds, about their texts, their music, their symbolisms, their prohibitions, their requirements, and that this should be presented factually, straightforwardly, with no particular spin, to all of the children in the country, and, as long as you teach them that, you can teach them anything else you like. that, i think, is maximal tolerance for religious freedom. as long as you inform your children about other religions, then you may, and as early as you like, and whatever you like, you may teach them whatever creed you want them to learn, but also let them know about other religions.
now, why do i say that?
because democracy depends on an informed citizenship. informed consent is the very bedrock of our understanding of democracy. misinformed consent is like a coin flip. it doesn't count, really. democracy depends on informed consent. this is the way we treat people as responsible adults.
children below the age of consent are a special case. parents are stewards of their children. they don't own them. you can't own your children. you have a responsibility to the world, to the state, to them, to take care of them right. you may teach them whatever creed you think is most important, but i say you have a responsibility to let them be informed about all the other creeds in the world, too.
Artikel:
Teach Our Children Well
"Here’s a proposal, then: As long as parents don’t teach their children anything that is likely to close their minds -- through fear or hatred or by disabling them from inquiry (by denying them an education, for instance, or keeping them entirely isolated from the world) then they may teach their children whatever religious doctrines they like."
Kennen ja hier einige schon... Finde aber erstaunlich, wie erfolgversprechend ein so minimalistischer Ansatz ist.
1. Man bringe Kindern bei kritisch zu denken.
2. Man nenne ihnen einige Fakten über Religionen und die Welt.
Und danach kann man ihnen beliebig viel Mist erzählen...
Verfasst: So 22. Apr 2007, 22:26
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