Diverse religious education for tolerance - academic

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Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:26a.m.

A Victoria University academic believes teaching primary school children about the world's main religions will promote understanding and tolerance, and a religious studies programme will prepare people to live in an increasingly diverse 21st century.

Professor Paul Morris from Victoria University discusses the issue on Sunrise.

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28 Apr 2010 08:25p.m.

Helen wrote:

Of course children in primary school should be enitled to learn about the religions that people around them are practising. We fail our children terribly if we do not give them this basic undrstanding of the world around them. Religious EDUCATION is imperative in today's world. Religious INSTRUCTION is entirely inapproprtiate in schools and cannot be justified educationally.

24 Mar 2010 02:33p.m.

kathy wrote:

NZ just does not do religion!

15 Mar 2010 01:30p.m.

Craig wrote:

I hope this has the option that i can have my children removed from the room during these classes, as they are far too young to be brainwashed. keep it in the homes and churches of its followers and stop wasting precious education time on stories.

15 Mar 2010 10:51a.m.

Lord_jagganath wrote:

It is bound to have major issues as no group will agree on the origins... it must be presented as a scientific and sociological subject rather than a religious one.. but my stance stands .. if any religion is going to be weighted more than the other, serious issues will crop up.