How can the United States guarantee multi-religious understanding, pluralistic tolerance, and strong social cohesion amongst its citizenry of different faiths for generations to come? The answer is simple, radical, urgent and necessary: incorporate the teaching of world religions into the curricula of secondary and post-secondary educational institutions. Such instruction should be mandatory, and alongside mathematics, science, English, and the humanities.
A so-called educated person in today’s society is uneducated if they do not have a basic grasp of, at minimum, Islam, Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism and Hinduism.
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“What is the definition of an educated person today? Does that definition include some basic knowledge about the Islamic world or not? If it doesn’t, perhaps that needs to be corrected,” stated His Highness the Aga Khan, spiritual leader of the world’s Shia Ismaili Muslims, to National Public Radio.
Read at the source: http://www.rahimkanani.com.
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Makes sense. I recently came across Core Knowledge Foundation which is apparently been around for long. Their curriculum books do teach students about world religion and civilization in sequence. For example, you would start with Hinduism/Buddhism in early years and by the time you’re in fourth grade, you’re learning about Muhammad (pbuh) and Islam.
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