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I must resist the temptation to go on about subversive education and Chris Stasheff...
To me, education is an on-going process, that starts with developing the skills to educate oneself. Education is the means by which people gain the skills they need to both be a part of and interact with the society of which they themselves are a part. In a democracy, the most important of these are the abilities to educate, question, challenge, debate and research.
I honestly don't know who should decide the curriculum, but I think it should be a concensus across a group with a range of areas of expertise reflecting the society we wish to live in. I feel that these people should be involved in the education process. However, my own personal bigotry would be to exclude religious beliefs from the process of deciding the curriculum, whilst still guaranteeing those beliefs the space within the curriculum to be explained. I am tempted to include political views in the same class as religious to prevent continual, confusing tampering...
PM me if you need some questions answered....
(And having said some of the above, I shall retreat to a safe bunker as I am bound to have upset some people....)
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