secular schools
Faith-free learning institutions
Secular schools are educational institutions that operate independently of religious affiliation or instruction.
Public schools in the United States are secular by law, teaching subjects without promoting any particular faith.
The term often appears in debates about the role of religion in education: France has a long tradition of secular schools.
- STEM educationTeaching science, technology, engineering, math
- science classCourse studying natural phenomena
- rationalismReason as knowledge source
- cultural diversityMultiple traditions in one society
- pluralismCoexistence of differing views
neutrality · public funding · liberal arts · inclusivity · humanism · moral education · academic freedom · equality of opportunity · social mobility · civic education · critical thinking · free inquiry · world history · interfaith dialogue · egalitarianism · global citizenship · media literacy · objectivity
- Private Schoolsprivate academies, college prep, academies, Andover, Exeter
- education historyeducation reforms, educational reforms, medieval universities, schoolhouse, schoolmaster
- Israeli schoolselementary, kindergarten, kindergartens, preschools, special education
- Petrine reformswesternization, military reforms, poll tax, St. Petersburg, Russian Navy
- educationeducation, teachers, students, learning, teaching
- French Educationlycee, baccalaureate, classes, college, rector
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Faith-based educational institutions
parochial schools · church schools · Catholic schools · Christian schools · Islamic schools
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