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→Political stability and democracy: Ideology in modern education
==Political stability and democracy==
==Political stability and democracy==
Education makes it possible for people to be responsible and informed citizens, and to have a voice in [[politics]] and [[society]], which is essential for sustaining [[democracy]]. It also provides people with the knowledge and awareness needed to promote tolerance and understanding among people.<ref>''Why is education important?'' op cit</ref>
Education makes it possible for people to be responsible and informed citizens, and to have a voice in [[politics]] and [[society]], which is essential for sustaining [[democracy]]. It also provides people with the knowledge and awareness needed to promote tolerance and understanding among people.<ref>''Why is education important?'' op cit</ref>
==Ideology in modern education==
In addition to purely academic teaching, education forms a part in developing a moral and political worldview. In many countries formal religious instruction is part of public education, while the [[United States]], which holds to [[separation of church and state]], no longer formally engages in such. However, it is argued by [[conservatives]] that the modern degree of exclusion of religious belief from the State was not the historical norm.<ref>[http://www.shalomjerusalem.com/heritage/heritage19.html Honorable Judge Robert Ulrich Chief Justice, Missouri Court Of Appeals, Western District, ''Were the Founding Fathers Christian?'']</ref><ref>http://www.naacd.com/issues_judicial.htm</ref> One example invoked in support of this contention is that an estimated 75 percent of the school systems in the South had religious services and Bible readings as late as 1962, when in ''[[Engel versus Vitale]]'', the U.S. [[Supreme Court]] decided that school-sponsored prayer was unconstitutional.<ref>Colliers 1961 Yearbook p. 224</ref> It is also argued that it is impossible to completely separate an educational system from moral beliefs,<ref>[http://peacebyjesus.witnesstoday.org/CauseEffect.html Cause and Effect: The Bible, the Educational System, and It's Influence]</ref> and that the modern divorcement of religion from education constitutes an official "establishment of a religion of secularism" - a term used by U.S. [[Supreme Court]] justice Potter Stewart in dissenting from the decision rendered on June 17, 1963 in ''[[Abington School versus Schempp]]'', which outlawed State-sponsored Bible reading in public schools.<ref>http://www.naacd.com/issues_judicial.htm</ref> <ref> Stephen V. Monsma, J. Christopher Soper, ''The Challenge of Pluralism: Church and State in Five Democracies'', p. 27</ref>
==References==
==References==