Well, apart of being Infant and Primary School, I can teach
religión and valencian* subject. One day, while I was studying my
teaaching degree few months ago, my Religión teacher came into class and shot
us the next question: Should religion be taught in public schools?
Suddenly, everybody started to talk about it and gave their
opinión. I would like to share with you my point of view. You can be for or
agaisnt it, but I just wanted to share will all of you another different
opinión that perhaps, apart of know deeply who I am, can help you to understand
another points of view. Enjoy it!
In few years, society has realized about the importance that
education has to the country development. That’s why government has tried to
improve his education law.
If we have
a look to the rest of education laws made in the past, we can observe that,
slowly, information and communication technology (ICT) is having an important
role in the national curriculum. But, why we focus the attention in ICT
instead of being worried about the rest of subjects students should learn in
the school? Because the quickly development of society ask for children that
know how new technologies work to do any job. Somehow we could say that we have
become in a technologic dependents. Perhaps in the future, our children know
how to send an email o how introduces an slides presentation, but what they
won’t know to do is how act by themselves in the real life, because we are
showing them that they can get all kind of information with only a click.
And what
happens with all that basic knowledge that made us know the world surround us
and help us to interpret it? Are the ITC replacing some subjects like
music or religion? Or from the beginning until now, shouldn’t religion have
been taught during all this years in schools.
It is certain that in Spanish curriculum religion can be
taught in schools; but for all those students that don’t want learn religion,
can study an alternative subject. The thing is, how can be possible that
religion be taught in schools if Spain is an aconfesional secular country?
Truly, the vast majority of society declares that they are Catholics, and
that’s why government decided children should study religion in public schools.
As far as I’m concerned, religion shouldn’t be taught in
public schools because they are free spaces for freedom thinking and to respect
all kinds of religion, and not just the most practiced. Otherwise, religion is
a “personal subject”, because to teach it, you have to experience it before.
It’s really difficult make someone learn to have faith if he or she has never
felt it or doesn't know what that is.
I agree that pupils should learn what kind of religion
there is, not just in Spain, if not in the world and which are their rituals
and their believes, because this will help them to understand that there are so
many religions and points of view as people in the world and they have to learn
to respect them to all of them.
Finally, for me, this is the main objective of school and
education: create a freedom space to opinion and respect, learning that I can
be agreeing or not with the point of view of my classmate, but I must to
respect it.
