In these situations children become the educators. They can share their various experiences and learn from one another. Our goal in religious education is to create spiritual, moral, cultural and social beings. Religious education concerns learning about and from traditions including our own. Still, this community enterprise is not embraced by all.
Teachers find students with no particular faith foundation in their classrooms.
Similarly, they encounter parents who have, at best, a luke warm understanding of faith, themselves. More religiously expressive parents fear that their children s faith will be undermined by inter-religious education. Secular education does not aim to instill faith, and many pupils are entering into their inter-religious world with no real faith base. Education, then, should address its four fold goals from each person s starting point. For some, this means beginning from a firm religious root.