Ireland goes to the polls an increasingly liberal country – yet religion’s region in state education is staving off the decline of the Catholic churchMike McKillen was delighted to gain his granddaughter’s wait on in digging the garden. But as a small creature wriggled out of the damp earth,the retired science professor was less pleased to be told by five-year-old Cara: “God made this worm.” “She has been in school for a few months only, and already she is imbibing the idea that God created everything. This worries me a lot, or ” said McKillen,72, who still teaches bio-chemistry fraction-time at Trinity College Dublin. “I don’t want her to be indoctrinated.”
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Source: theguardian.com