Is "religious school" an oxymoron?

Question

You can't expect a real education in science, philosophy or history, so what does that leave? Math and spelling?

Answer 1

Less of an oxymoron than "public" school. Does the public decide what's taught in "Public" schools? No! The government elitists do. And are their children in "public" schools? Nope. They're in elite schools, overseen by elite parents.

Why don't we call public schools what they really are - "Government" schools.

The parents - i.e. the "public" has more of a say what goes on in a "religious" school than in a "public", I mean "Government" school.

If you don't believe they're getting a good education, compare test scores sometimes. The religious schools outperform the government schools by a WIDE margin.

Answer 2

HAHA, that is a comedic question in that it plays on the ignorance of the 21st century American mind who looks at history as going no further back than the founding of America. In fact, it was religion that founded the school system that you all sit in today. The liberal arts was originally started for education in the ministry. In fact, it was the crusades that revived Scholasticism as well as the philosophy of the Greeks.
Are there some religous 'crazies' out there...sure there are but there are also insane people in any walk of life. If in fact Christianity is right in its statements about the way the world really is then there is no school apart from Religion which would make Theology the queen of all sciences that oversees all else.
-keep in mind, all of the famous schools began as religous schools and still have a large department of theology....Princeton, Yale, Harvard, etc. etc.

Answer 3

Absolutely.
Religionists, who by their own choice say they don't belong on Earth, can only teach anything to the extent they violate their precepts. In a monastery giving up the world, they don't need to study earthly matters; the need to pray, sacrifice as much as possible of worldly involvement and stay out of the way of the normatives.
There's a wonderful book by Sister Miriam Joseph called "Shakespeare's Use of the Arts of Language". Studying it helped make me the writer i am today.
But she should not have written it; or she should not have done so while in a sisterhood, by her standards and mine.

My objection has nothing to do therefore with her brainpower; it has to do with the fact that if what she wrote is useful to me, a secular atheist, then it was a sin by her standards to have produced something so useful on earthly to the ungodly, like me and those I wrote for.

My concern is for her soul. And if religious education at its best is this immoral and confusing for her, imagine what it does to students in such schools.

Answer 4

Yes. Religion is not an exact science. Philosophy & history have also been compromised by the MEN recording them. Math & spelling is it, but even spelling can be different between English & American........Ex color or colour.

Answer 5

no, it's not. besides, just b/c people have religious beliefs that doesn't mean they're incapable of understanding science, philosophy or history. there are good and bad teachers everywhere...the bad often push their biases (on both sides of the fence) and the good know how to represent both sides. you could be just as accusatory to places like harvard and yale b/c they're so heavily liberal, does that mean that you can't expect any teachers there to know how to teach? yes, some will push their opinions, but some (just as in any school) know how to present all sides and ideas.

Answer 6

It relies upon on the way it really is being taught. In Unitarian Universalist church homes, non secular practise is extremely an practise about non secular ideas and in no way (usually) an indoctrination into any unmarried one in each and every of them. I helped coach a UU non secular practise class to fifth graders and it coated ideas espoused by technique of various religions. Their intense college non secular practise class contains field journeys to different non secular facilities interior reach so the toddlers get a large view of what faith and faith skill to different individuals. for individuals extremely wanting an truthful and open non secular practise, it is the mind-set i ought to recommend.

Answer 7

Some, yes. I went to catholic school, and we didn't learn evolution (although we didn't learn ID or creationism either). I'm now finishing a PhD in physics. I'd say my catholic school did well overall, but now I'm in the south, and it's easy tell which students went to christian schools. They're the ones who don't know how old the universe is and didn't know there was gravity on the moon.

Answer 8

Yet it is!

Religion dictates, science educates.

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Answer 9

yes it is