Religious education makes a distinctive contribution to the school curriculum by developing pupils’ knowledge and understanding of religion, religious beliefs, practices, language and traditions and their influences on individuals’ communities, societies and cultures. It also enables to respond to a range of important questions related to spiritual development in students. Religious education is concerned with the deep meaning that individuals and groups made of their experiences and how this helps them give purpose to their lives.
The main aim of having a school uniform is to showcase that “all are equal” in the school, be it a Hindu Muslim or a Christian, or white skinned or a dark skinned or a Kannada speaking, English speaking or any other language for that matter, students all of them wear the same uniform and come to school. Though they have been preaching in schools that all are equal there is no changes happening in the society, it’s still shown in the hearts of the students that there exists discrimination of caste or color. The students tend to make friendship with other students who are of the same religion. Hence, there must be an addition of religious education in the curriculum where the students are clearly taught about each religion and the norms of each religion and the main motive being “respect all religions” they should also be taught the contribution of religious and the spiritual dimensions of religion to the society.
Students should be taught that “no religion is high or low” and the only religion that exists is the “humanity”, at first we should learn to respect the feelings of humans and accept the fact that all are equal in the society and there have been equal importance and consideration given for each person of the society. Considering the fact that there is an existence of the three main religion in India i.e Hindu, Muslim and Christian. We believe that today’s children are the future citizens of the country and it is also evident in the society the conflicts between the Hindu and Muslims or be it the conflicts between the Muslims and Christians, we should make it clear to the students that all are equal we should not destroy each other. There have been cases and situations where the Muslims have stoned the Churches and destroyed them, setting this a negative example of destroying the nation, we have to make it aware to the students that they should not follow this and instead be supportive to one and other in the society. As found in schools as of now, the catholic schools only preach about Christianity and Muslim schools preach only about Islam. When the schools only are being divided due to caste and religion then there is no use of preaching the concept of unity in the schools. Instead an Islamic school can also preach about the existence of Christianity and the Hindu religion. In the same way a Catholic school can preach about the existence of the other two religions.
Teaching about the religion in schools creates respect in the minds of the young children for their own religion as well as the other religion that exists in the country.
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