Should our children be allowed study philosophy as an alternative to religion in schools?
Most students that I can think of have an aversion to R.E. as they disagree with it because they ‘don’t want to be oppressed by the establishment’ – of course that’s the more articulate, slightly hippy-ish and less profane version. In fact, it is a complete load of toss, but I’m trying to communicate the fact that half of the people in the school don’t even have a valid reason – they just don’t like it. And I’m yet to hear a proper or imaginative [dis]belief regarding why the atheists are so. It isn’t even that the people in my classes disagree with organized religion or that they simply have not been able to manifest their faith – it is just because they feel that they have to do work on something that does not relate to them! And also, they leave out the exam questions because they’re a general balanced equilibrium of reasoned argument and reasoned thinking… These are some of the reasons that I find the hypothetical idea of schoolchildren studying philosophy to be completely, and u
