5. Morals/Morality
- concerned with the judgment
of the goodness or badness
of human action and character.
- universal ethical principle
6. Secular
- pertaining to worldly things or
to things that are not regarded
as religious, spiritual, or sacred.
7. Religious Education
- Education is an essential part
of religion. Religious education
would be a special sort of
education, like moral education,
aesthetic education,
and mathematical education.
8. Religious Education
- To initiate a pupil into
mathematics, science
and history is to bring
him into contact with
the Divine Purpose as
revealed in the world.
9. Religious Education
- If to be educated involves
initiation into all the forms
of knowledge, then religion
is one of those forms,
'education' requires its
inclusion as a matter
of necessity.
10. Religious Education
The way of understanding
– giving of information and
improvement of understanding.
Takes religion and its works as
empirical matters and seeks
to give an understanding of
how they came to be as they are.
Comparative religious studies
both on intellectual and social
grounds.
11. Religious Education
The way of commitment
– religious education aimed
at securing commitment runs
very close to indoctrination,
the teaching of uncheckable
propositions by authority.
12. Religious Education
- The teacher could try to developed in
the child a religious consciousness, by
getting him/her to understand how life
looked to, say the Hebrew prophets, to
Jesus, to St. Francis, to Buddha or to
Mohammed.
13. Religious Education
- This would help to provide
perspectives on the world which
would be necessary before anyone
could really be in a position to choose
to commit him/herself, or not to any
particular religion.
14. Religious Education
- Ang lahat ng pag-aaral ay kailangan
nakatuon sa ultimate purpose nito –
ang makilala ang Diyos. (Molmisa, 2011)
15. Religious Education
What we can learn from religion?
-Ritualistic side of religion
-Moralistic side of religion
-Communal side of religion
-Rich culture and traditions
-Religious art
-Oratory