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An end to Special Religious Education in public schools : Comments
By Glen Coulton, published 15/12/2010Only in Special Religious Education classes are teachers allowed to exhort students to believe baseless 'truths'.
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The ethics classes in NSW are aimed at developing in each child the capacity to think clearly for themselves on all ethical issues. Fully developed, discussion of open ended questions will lead to improvements in cognitive ability (similar to IQ) and in classroom behaviour. Every learning hour becomes more effective.
In his book "Letters to a Young Contrarian" Christopher Hitchens stated, "The whole apparatus of absolution and forgiveness strikes me as positively immoral, while the concept of revealed truth degrades the whole concept of free intelligence by purportedly relieving us of the hard task of working out ethical principles for ourselves".
Religious leaders do not want young people working out ethical principles for themselves.
Anyone who wishes to know the potential benefits from the types of discussion mentioned should read the report at the following OLO site address.
http://onlineopinion.com.au/documents/articles/Clackmannan.doc