Taking God to School: The end of Australia's egalitarian education?

Marion Maddox

Taking God to School: The end of Australia's egalitarian education?
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Allen & Unwin
Country
Australia
Published
1 February 2014
Pages
272
ISBN
9781743315712

Taking God to School: The end of Australia’s egalitarian education?

Marion Maddox

Fewer Australians now practise a religion or believe in God than ever. Yet our governments increasingly push conservative Christianity on our children.

Nearly forty per cent of secondary students attend a private school, which are overwhelmingly Christian. Canberra funds them heavily, and sends evangelical Christian chaplains into both public and private schools. Some states subsidise Christian volunteers to deliver religious instruction, and some make Christian ministry a matriculation subject.

Some Christian schools promote Creationism, and some advertise that their first priority is training ‘soldiers’ to ‘do battle for the Lord in a world which rejects His laws and dominion’, rather than good citizens of Australia.

Marion Maddox demonstrates that our governments are systematically demolishing the once proud free, compulsory and secular education system, in favour of taxpayer-funded dogma and division. The implications are unsettling for our society and for our democracy.

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