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Essay on A Passover Way to Teach
A Passover Way to Teach" presented the thought that the Jewish Haggadah presents teaching methods that are more effectual than the methods used in a modern education system. The paper discusses the legitimacy of the claim by presenting the flaws and problems in the argument. The paper explains the complexity of accepting this teaching approach to a modern education system. The major flaw is it refers to teaching spiritual values in the framework of an ancient culture. It is not easy to concern this to modern society and to the contemporary classroom.
Religion is intensely personal and is of overriding importance to many people. Because it has been ignored in education, and because it has become so much a private matter, most of us have had little practice talking about it in public places. Unlike any of these other matters, the treatment of religion in public education is regulated by the Constitution by way of the religion clauses of the First Amendment. Perhaps most important, religion is sufficiently problematic given the reigning orthodoxies of our intellectual culture that it is very hard for most educators to take it seriously—at least in their own fields.Understanding religion involves much more than knowing a few facts. The great majority of students know very little about religion. They learn nothing about it at school, and, increasingly, they learn nothing about it at home or in church or synagogue.
To this point Richard Rothstein have documented the absence of religion from modern education—indeed, the hostility of public education to religion. It is now time to begin the constructive argument for incorporating the study of religion into education.Students should learn something about religion in elementary schools and in vocational or professional education, but that is not my concern here.............
