The name is absent

indoctrination. However, cross-cultural understanding is
possible in a pluralistic society like India and this
could be provided for in Anglo-Indian schools because it
is a

... mark of the secular society that it is
religiously plural. (38)

The problem created by ethical pluralism is that in
neither public and private morality can there be an
agreed settlement of conflicts and disagreements; but the
disagreeing parties can simply agree to differ.

Tolerance is the enduring lesson of ethical pluralism
and the Anglo-Indian schools with their culturally
determined ethical diversity offer a microcosm of Indian
society.

Ethical pluralism is the only programme worth devising
which might be able to suit philosophers, sociologists,
theologians or any other group of specialists. Ethical
pluralism will enable them to foster certain intellectual
excellence. This is found in the ability to determine
whether

... the morality of one's group requires of
one is what it should require of one; and if
it does not, to determine what is morally
required of one, in such a case. (39)

In other words, ethical pluralism will teach children how
to cope with moral and spiritual issues in their lives.

The introduction of life-themes remains a major new
contribution to the method of teaching religion in a
cross-cultural classroom environment. One is

. .. concerned to explore the religious
experience innate within the ordinary
experience of the child. (40)

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