Education and Religion... The tie that binds.

[loveable liberal]

I cant help but notice that people with higher education seem, at least to me, less religious. I dont like tieing religiousness to spirituality because they are two separate things. Im not religious but I am spiritual.

Anyway, does anyone else think that Bushco's No Child Left Behind is a ploy to restrict education, thereby makeing people more religious? I'm not trying to say you have to be uneducated to belive in Christianity. I want to know if people think there is a coordinated effort to make people more religious.

[Tux]

1. Same here

I think critical thinking skills prevents fundi thoughts or at least makes it harder to get. And educated people do see how ideas are formed thus are more spiritual and less prone to be religious which those ideas rarely change.

[katinmn]

2. NCLB is a disaster for many reasons

Unfunded mandates - schools are spending millions of dollars on too-frequent testing.
It's goal is formulaic education meant to make everyone think alike.
It requires schools to fork over names of future cannon fodder or lose federal funding.

Several states are discussing pulling out of NCLB, including Minnesota. The cost to our state would be at least $200,000 in lost federal funding. Considering we spend at least that much on required testing, we wouldn't be losing anything in the long run.