Richard Dawkins' Age of Reason: Faith Schools Menace? [3/4]

Part 3/4 of "Richard Dawkins' Age of Reason: Faith Schools Menace?"
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Aired August 18, 2010 on Channel 4.

The number of faith schools in Britain is rising. Around 7,000 publicly funded schools - one in three - now has a religious affiliation.

As the coalition government paves the way for more faith-based education by promoting 'free schools', the renowned atheist and evolutionary biologist Professor Richard Dawkins says enough is enough.

In this passionately argued film, Dawkins calls on us to reconsider the consequences of faith education, which, he argues, bamboozles parents and indoctrinates and divides children.

The film features robust exchanges with former Secretary of State for Education Charles Clarke, Head of the Church of England Education Service Reverend Janina Ainsworth, and the Chair of the Association of Muslim Schools, Dr Mohammed Mukadam.

It also features insights from child psychologists and key players in faith education as well as insights from both parents and pupils.

Dawkins also draws on his own personal history as a father, arguing that the government must stop funding new faith schools, and urges society to respect a child's right to freedom of belief.

©2010 Channel 4 Television Corporation.

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[MITHWORLD1]

I can´t understand what rev.Gibson says just before "down to choice",at 6:08,can anybody help me,please?

[Prophiscient]

@MITHWORLD1

"I think it just boils down to choice."

[AbdultheImpailler]

typical catholic response, try and turn the discussion to suit themselves then play the victim card, it's sickening, and some of my family wonder why I never bought into it, catholics are a bunch of whiners!

[annata12]

Parents have the freedom, but education should not have the freedom to spread falsehood! They should only have the freedom to choose between what's true

[UPAJB]

Wow! I'm glad we doesn't have any faith schools in Denmark!

[Redbeardian]

Parents should have the right to vote for educated professionals that determine the cooriculum for their children. They shouldn't have the right to decide what specific information is taught. They aren't qualified to make such a decision. There's a reason it takes several years to earn a degree. It's like a parent demanding that their children learn in health class that jumping up and down after sex is a form of birth control.

[MITHWORLD1]

@Prophiscient thank you very much ;)

[Psychosomnic]

is anyone else disturbed by the excessive presence of walls and fences, even barbed wire in schools as seen in this series? *Especially* when the supposed of idea open-mindedness is so casually thrown about inside? It's not their fault specifically, it's just disturbing in general that a society is so cavalier about setting up physical manifestations of segregation.

[MrKalil2009]

05:34 lol