Our Public Schools : Christian or Secular

Our Public Schools : Christian or SecularOur Public Schools : Christian or Secular

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Author: Renwick Harper Martin
Published Date: 09 Jun 2012
Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
Language: English
Format: Hardback::152 pages
ISBN10: 1258366940
ISBN13: 9781258366940
Dimension: 152x 229x 10mm::372g

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Our Public Schools : Christian or Secular. The Religious Right wants special treatment for its version of faith in our public schools. It can never have that. The schools must serve all young�sters, and they do that best focusing on secular education. Children’s religious or moral upbringing is best left in the hands of their parents. If schools and teachers are simply concerned with what “works,” they undercut the very foundation of education—the objective truth of God and His Word. Genuine education is concerned with training persons and passing down values and traditions. Dewey's Secular Humanism But many unfunded schools are also obliged to follow the very same government curricula and guidelines. In the sense that Christian schools meet and exceed the goals that governments have set for the education of its young citizens, Christian schools are public schools. Do … Well, while I don’t think public schools are always a perfect solution, I wouldn’t go so far as to say “every school is the same” or that they’re a waste of money. My children go to a great private school–much better than the public schools in our area–and we’re really happy there. So there are good and bad schools on both sides. "It must also be very confusing for the handful of Christian pupils in some of them. It would seem logical these schools become secular institutions." Stephen Evans, the campaigns director of the National Secular Society, endorsed Professor Smither's comments, and said that the Times' report "exposed the anachronism in our education system. Is Secular Humanism Taught in Our Public Schools? J. E. Hill. Many conservative Christians maintain that Secular Humanism is a religion and that it is being promoted as such in our public schools. This is a strange allegation to begin with, and attempts to prove it true are unconvincing. This secular approach is the appropriate way for the Bible to be taught in public schools. The state's Bible courses, authorized in 1996, had come under criticism from state lawmakers and the Jewish Anti-Defamation League, who complained that some courses were … This is where public schools are desperately failing and Christian classical schools are thriving. As G.K. Chesterton quipped in his “Tremendous Trifles,” “The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder.” The loss of wonder and beauty is one of the greatest tragedies in our modern climate of education. Both schools approach teaching religion in different ways. Secular schools, like Westerford, expose their students to all religions through subjects like Life Orientation. They support numerous religious societies, such as the Christian Union, the Muslim Association, the Hindu Association, and the Jewish Association. During the colonial era of the 1700s, the most important battleground in America was in our churches. It was from the pulpits of Christian churches that faithful preachers of the gospel of Christ sought to ignite the glorious flame of God-given freedom … Pfeffer fears that if the Supreme Court upholds its current understanding of religion to include Secular Humanism and orders the teachings of Humanism to be removed from the public schools "the consequences may be no less than the disintegration of our public school system and the end of Horace Mann's dream."[9] Our public schools, Christian or secular. [R H Martin] Home. WorldCat Home About WorldCat Help. Search. Search for Library Items Search for Lists Search for Contacts Search for a Library. Create lists, bibliographies and reviews: or Search WorldCat. Find items in libraries near you “In short, it means that the secularization of our culture has more successfully captured the hearts and minds of our youth than has the efforts of the Christian home, the church, or even the traditional Christian school.” (Editor’s note, students from traditional Christian schools score in an area similar to public school students on According to the US Department of Education, one group of Christian colleges, CCCU schools, grew over 70% from 1990 to 2004. During that same period of time, all independent four year schools grew 28%, while public four year institutions grew only about 13%. These statistics reveal that there must be something "different" about Christian colleges. Secular Humanism Religion of PAGAN American Gov't Schools Public Schools = Gov't Schools Michael Jacques Is there a battle occurring in the public schools between the religion of secular humanism and the Judeo-Christian ethic? We also hem that there are not many secular humanists in our schools, but the director of the ARA from 1975 to And the Supreme Court conceded in the Eversion case (1947) that Secularism is in fact the religion of the public schools. “Our public school,” it said, “is organized on the premises that secular education can be isolated from all religious teaching so that the school can inculcate all needed temporal knowledge …” Dr. James Dobson, one of the nation's most influential Christian leaders and a former public-school teacher, hosted the discussion on his national radio program focusing on the spiritual danger of allowing children to sit in secular or even anti-God public schools for over a dozen formative years. No particular political party is being singled out on this issue - both Liberal and Labor governments are equally complicit in dismantling Australia's secular public education system. Nor is this just about religion. Australia's economic future depends on …