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Originally Posted by AcGold
I'm not talking about teaching theosophy and enforcing dogma, I'm talking about teaching the history and complexity of religion.
Sure religious people are close-minded, they don't want to challenge their worldview most of the time. I'm not talking about that, I'm talking about the symbolism, the history, the esotericism, the influence, the foundations of one of the most influential aspects of society for thousands of years. I find it absolutely fascinating; the tree of life, kabbalism, the upside down cross, Jesuits, Templars, the Vatican, Kali and Kali. How does it all fit together? I don't know but I sure as heck wish they'd have taught some of it in school over some of the other wasted hours because when you look into the complexities of it it expands the minds ability to think critically and ability to identify patterns.
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Here is the thing, and I really don't know, but is the highschool mind able to process these thoughts? Do they have the cognitive skills needed to study these types of things?
To my mind, school (gr 1 - 12) is about teaching children how to learn, not so much about what they are learning (to some degree), so that when they go to post secondary school they have the ability to actually learn.
I might be way off on this though.