Religion and School

The media today sells only if it can create confusion and whole lot of hulla boo around a minor event happening in some corner of the country.
For the record – it is very difficult to make out what actually happened in the first place but during a regular assembly prayer at more than a century old school in Lucknow – Loreto Convent, over a dozen students fainted after what can be called as–“manifestation of Lord Jesus Christ in physical form”.
Strangely enough people seem to be discussing the separation of Religion from school which in Indian context seems to be absurd for -

• Name a subject from which you can take away the 'Concept' of God and hence 'Religion'. –


• "Maths" - Try Explaining the divine Ratio "Phi".


• "Hindi" - What would it be without 'Kabir and Surdas'?


• "Science" - One cannot have a conceptual understandig of the subject at all without questioning the beliefs and superstitions which are part and parcel of one's religion. This only subject raises student’s interest in validating the theory and Concept of God and the only place which deems fit for this research is Religion.


• India has been known to be the land of origin for the famous "Gurukul" (Parampara) style of teaching. This style of teaching which is highly respected and still followed in India had the roots of religion deeply ingrained within it. When the media raised hue and cry on Professor Sabbarwal's death, the only question it targeted was the "Guru-Shishya" Parampara, which itself had its genesis in the aforementioned style.

In the absence of data, when the media raises questions like – “Are these schools centres of conversion?” it degrades the century old image of such institutions for cheap publicity. Instead it should thoroughly probe into the history of the School and find out the total number of cases of conversions in the school in the past.
Religion is a personal choice and not a society imposed thing. Parents sending their children to schools like Loreto Convent are themselves quiet educated and aware of the schools teaching methodology. Rather, they have to share the load of the studies of their children and hence are involved in the day to day activities of the school themselves; resulting in a automatic third party monitoring of the school activities. They do not require the Bajrang Dal Vandals for this purpose. If the school is resorting to any sort of mischief, all sane parents would withdraw their students from the institution.
Learning under the shadow of multiple religions does not result in students converting from one religion to the other, rather it cultivates “Tolerance” within them; the absence of which is the root cause of world’s biggest problem today – Terrorism.