ark said

Samefag said

ark said	[orig][quote]
teaching comparitive religion at a young age is the best way.

Agreed. Firstly, give kids the tradition/faith they get from family. But since so many of us ARE atheists or such these days, they should secondly get a good overview of a little of everything else.

Kinda like when I was a kid. We were raised cathlick, but there would be the t.v. episode where the cathlick main character would make friends with some filthy jew kid, so you'd get an entertaining little education of how Hanukkah and penny-pinching works.

Whether this should come from the school is debatable. I don't trust the public school system to something that can be such an important part of a kids life potentially. Like, if you want your kid to learn music, do you let them take the music class in public school, or do you sign them up for private instrument lessons?

I think it's almost unfair to a kid to say "I don't believe, so I will raise you not to believe". They have to learn it somewhere, to be fair.

I don't think a comparison to music education is necessary, public or private, it's a study of "the arts". Comparative myth is a well-studied subject that falls under history and sociology. It's a failure of a public school if it can't teach mythology from a historical/sociological perspective.