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Studies syllabus does because ɪ think it con-

fuses the children. From talking to children
about things by teaching world religions and
then going back to Christianity and the

society because you are showing so much dif-
ference in the Society and unless you are very
careful to be very positive the children won’t

learn that there are different viewpoints
and that people adhere to. I think they’ll
just become very confused and feel that the

and so many different standards that religion
wasn’t the place to gain a moral standard.
I think it’s a very difficult thing in the
fact that it’s dealing with a belief and I

teaching religion fairly in a sense that in

University I studied all the world religions
andnow I’m very knowledgeable on certain ones
- like Chinese religions - but I found when
I was teaching things like Islam I felt in
some ways it was too soon for the children
because I did have children who were Moslems

in the class and I think the difficulty is

that you hurt them in some way because when-
ever we look at Muslim religion something

we spoil them because we look at them

from our own point of view and I don’t really

know whether we should teach children religion
in that sense. I think it might be better
to teach world religions in the sense of
perhaps looking say sociologically or geogra-
phically even - looking at societies and the
way other people live, seeing religion as
an integral part of society rather than on
its own. I mean that’s the way I’ve thought

more

treading on children’s toes and I’m also aware
of having a religious conviction that however
I teach them I’m teaching it my way.

It’s such a personal thing isn’t it.

Yes and I know often my viewpoints are slightly
different to Head of Department’s and I think

as the children get to know us they see that

we, not disagree, but that the way we approach

than some others - whether it really has a

place - perhaps in the classroom when children
had to learn catechism, various religious

and moral viewpoints from the Bible

then it was serving a purpose but now I think

it is very much just confusing.

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