Education - a Humanist perspective

HSS Education Officer Clare Marsh was our speaker for the evening. Clare is working on improving the status of humanism in education.  This raised awareness was directed at helping and advising parents who had concerns as to the religiosity to which their children were subjected, and also through Society members being trained and available to go into schools, to give talks on humanism or to lead assemblies. 

Clare pointed out that children had no rights to withdraw from religious education or observance until the UN Convention (1990), which stated that parties should respect the right of the child to freedom of thought, conscience and religion: the child "should be educated but not indoctrinated". Clare described how, for its education initiative, HSS had compiled lesson plans for teachers and senior pupils, and had produced a booklet, “Education without religion – a Humanist perspective” for wide circulation, to raise awareness among education authorities and teachers, as well as parents. 

Sample letters for parents to use in approaching schools are now available on the HSS website.  Dundee Group volunteer activists are sought for parental support and schools engagement, as the essential local resource for further development of the initiative. 

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