Carol
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This clearly is my perference.
I am quoting from the book "Inside American Education", by Thomas Sowell. He clearly opposes the Humanist agenda, because he uses it as an example of what has gone wrong with education. He quotes John J Dunphy, "A Religion for a New Age" Humanist, January/February 1983, page 26.
I would not say this is a new religion, for a new age, but it is what comes through Greek and Roman classics that were the meaning of being literate, when the United States of American became a republic. I think this education is essential to defending our democracy, which is the culture we defended in two world wars. Christianity without this education, just does not result in the democracy we defended.
I am quoting from the book "Inside American Education", by Thomas Sowell. He clearly opposes the Humanist agenda, because he uses it as an example of what has gone wrong with education. He quotes John J Dunphy, "A Religion for a New Age" Humanist, January/February 1983, page 26.
"I am convinced that the battle for humankind's future must be waged and won in the public school classrooms by teahcers who correctly preceive their role as the proselytizers of a new faith: a religion of humanity that recognizes and respects the spark of what theologians call divinity in every human being.
These teachers must embody the same selfless dedication as the most rabid fundamentalist preachers, for they will be ministers of another sort, utilizing a classroom instead of a pulpit to convey humanist values in whatever subject they teach, regardless of the education level- preschool day care or large state university."
I would not say this is a new religion, for a new age, but it is what comes through Greek and Roman classics that were the meaning of being literate, when the United States of American became a republic. I think this education is essential to defending our democracy, which is the culture we defended in two world wars. Christianity without this education, just does not result in the democracy we defended.
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