2007-02-07 04:34:32 · 30 answers · asked by priya 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Spirituality isn't stuff it is a part of you whether you like it or not or whether you are taught it or not. It is a very important part of one self, you don't have to be apart of it but it helps tremendously. Humans have blocked away things like spirituality and enlightenment and are to busy focused on their life, work, money, greed, power, and a hole load of bull**** that has corrupted our natural being. It should be taught at school and used more than it is. It helps us to understand other things in life that you may not notice when busy with your life's wants and needs and helps us to understand one self. The mind is to powerful for humans to know even half of what it is about and with spirituality being natural to us we should most defiantly incorporate it in our learning and lives.
2007-02-07 12:12:35 · answer #1 · answered by jimi_boris 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. The only people qualified to teach spirituality to a child are the child's parents - who sometimes assign the responsibility to someone else (like a minister or religious school). Having said that, a person on this planet interacting with others will learn about spirituality on their own to some extent. The distinction is who should be the instructor or the authority in the matter. Ultimately the authority in the matter should lie with the individual, which would not be the case if the subject were a school subject - though it might be interesting to have a course that briefly introduces people to beliefs from around the world to help dispel the myths that are associated with some faiths - but it should be considered a world history sort of thing, rather than lessons in spirituality.
Peace!
2007-02-07 04:41:52 · answer #2 · answered by carole 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think school is the place to teach anything to do with religion or spirituality. It is the parents' job to raise their children with values. It should not be the school or teacher's responsibility to determine what religion or spirituality, whatever, should reign in our education system. To make everyone happy, why not just let parents do the teaching for something so personal, take the burden off the schools. Everyone can agree that math means 1 + 1 = 2, so teach math, etc., but religion is just too questionable for too many people these days. Why offend certain belief and religions? Keep everyone happy by giving this awesome responsibility to the parents.
2007-02-07 04:41:11 · answer #3 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nosireebob. That is up to the parents. The children can find out anything they want to from others if the parents aren't so spiritual.
2007-02-07 05:54:49 · answer #4 · answered by H. Scot 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think its fine the way it is, when someone wants spirituality to be taught its taught in private schools . theres just too much nonsense they teach already in my opinion id hate to see more, spirituality is a self journey an is far too wide to sqeeze it into a hour . an young children cant grasp it anyway. i think thats something that should be learned later in life to be more realistic
2007-02-07 04:42:55 · answer #5 · answered by peeps you 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
overall, i think schools should be secular and leave the spirituality/religion at home and at church, if that sort of thing is important to you. but unfortunately, the current state of public schools is making private schools more and more attractive just from a general education, and perhaps safety standpoint. unless something is done about our public schools, things are going to get much worse.
given the low quality in american schools, i'd worry about the basics: math, reading/writing, science, art/music...before I'd worry about a spiritually course.
2007-02-07 04:47:25 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think as an elective in highschool and/or jr. high they should have an objective overview type of class that explores many of the worlds "main stream" religions. WITHOUT the whole I'm/We're right you're/they're wrong issue. I took a class like that in college and learned alot about differences and similarities in todays religions. It would probably open a lot of eyes and minds.
2007-02-07 04:43:15 · answer #7 · answered by PaganPoetess 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no. We have freedom of religion in this country, which also means that parents should be allowed to teach their kids that spirituality is not true either. The whole subject need to be left alone.
2007-02-07 04:39:57 · answer #8 · answered by Love Shepherd 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
school isnt the place for spirituality or religion to be taught.
2007-02-07 04:40:05 · answer #9 · answered by Bistro 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
When we were in school, there used to be an ethics class for us. We were taught right morals, not religion.
2007-02-07 21:20:13 · answer #10 · answered by sunilbernard 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋