Agenda for educational Change
Edited by John Shortt and Trevor Cooling .
Apollos (IVP). £14.99
ISBN 0 85111 449 0
The thrust of this book is that we should have a Christian Curriculum in state schools. To me, the idea of a state school running an explicitly evangelical curriculum, taught by non-Christians to non-Christians is both ludicrous and theologically unacceptable. In all conscience it is morally objectionable.
Selective education as an alternative to state education is also something which is offensive to a democratic, dissenting and radical theological tradition. Schools selecting pupils because of the asserted faith of their parents or the children themselves seems equally contentious and possibly based on dubious theology.
