Education Vs Religion

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Throughout life and the pursuit of education, happiness and eternity, we as humans separate the fact that some things in life go hand-in-hand with each other. The human race is always trying to find ways to distinguish between two separate things. It is so easy to separate things but not bring them together as a centralized idea. In this instance, we have found so many ways to separate religion from the rest of our daily lives, as well as we have found ways to separate our education from parts of people’s lives as well. In this, I believe that religion and education go hand-in-hand, and in belief religion has huge impacts on educational standards.
Throughout my life, I have had many teachers, and instructors who were very faith oriented and all the time in those classes I would have a faith based education. It was not until recently I have been integrated into a secular education, where god and faith have seemingly been removed from the education. I was raised in a very religious
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The amazing thing about this was most of these teachers were our Pastors, Sunday school teachers, and the elders of the church. These people took the time to go to college or get training on how the education system works, and most of them getting degrees in teaching or in the fields they teach. I had went5 to this type of schooling up to my sophomore year in high school. Once I had transferred to a public school where the belief system was totally different, I had noticed it was still the same instruction and teaching without biblical references. I found myself missing that aspect because in my eyes it went all together. To be raised in a church based home with a church-based education and to leave that quality of education to go to public school for me was complete polar

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