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Higher education - okay, but quality education can't be overestimated. I live in Poland and education actually seems to be getting worse over time, while catho
by b0rsuk 9y ago
Higher education - okay, but quality education can't be overestimated.
I live in Poland and education actually seems to be getting worse over time, while catholic church is consistently gaining ground. In primary + secondary schools, there's more religion than physics, biology or chemistry. Mathematics is the only science lesson still more common than religion. Technically there should be "ethics" lessons as an alternative, but very few schools actually employ such teachers, citing various excuses.
Recently, there's a push by education minister to let priests become educators (form masters), taking orders from bishop rather than principal. Final exams from catholic religion are not far away.
If you put tax money into religion rather than scientific grants, and you complain your country has very low innovation rating, really, what do you expect? Maybe you could export a new religion?
- dgregd 9y agoDuring communism in Poland there was 1 hour of religion classes per week. Classes were run in Catholic Church buildings. Now there are 2 hours of religion classes in school buildings. Pupils who do not want to go to religion classes can have a free time. Do you really think that changing for example 1 hour of religion lesson per week to 1 hour of chemistry would change a lot? I doubt whether the ethics lesson in your case would result in less religion intolerance. Someone who is that much ashamed of his own country should simply emigrate, as President Komorowski advised. PS. Polish Catholic Church also overestimated the impact of religion classes for practicing Catholics. Now less people attend Sunday masses.