What Richard Dawkins thinks about education

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Evolutionary biologist and author; writes The Poetry of Reality newsletter on Substack.

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   Our readingTeaching children to fear eternal punishment is, fairly described, child abuse

   Their wordsI am persuaded that the phrase 'child abuse' is no exaggeration when used to describe what teachers and priests are doing to children whom they encourage to believe in something like the punishment of unshriven mortal sins in an eternal hell.

   ↗The God Delusion (Houghton Mifflin, 2006)archive.org All 13 from this book