{"id":10063,"date":"2011-04-16T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-16T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/04\/16\/religious-education-to-be-mandatory-in-trinidad-and-tobago\/"},"modified":"2011-04-16T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-16T12:00:00","slug":"religious-education-to-be-mandatory-in-trinidad-and-tobago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/04\/16\/religious-education-to-be-mandatory-in-trinidad-and-tobago\/","title":{"rendered":"Religious Education To Be Mandatory In Trinidad and Tobago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.co.tt\/news\/0,138348.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TRINIDAD\/TOBAGO, April 5, 2011: The government will move to make religious education mandatory at all schools, Education Minister Dr. Tim Gopeesingh announced on Sunday. &#8220;The Ministry of Education&#8230;intends to implement a new system of religious education in our schools,&#8221; he said while delivering a feature address at a youth forum hosted by the Hindu Students Council. Gopeesingh elaborated, &#8220;Under this reviewed curriculum, all schools, whether they are Government, denominational or private, will be mandated to teach religious education as part of their timetables,&#8221; he said, &#8220;but not in the same manner as done before.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He added, &#8220;Under our revamped system, all religions and their teachings will be taught to students under the heading of religious education.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This change is aimed at fostering proper knowledge of the teachings, values and morals of all religions among our children from as early as the primary school level, with a view to engendering not just educational learning, but also, tolerance and acceptance of all religious groups by all citizens in our country,&#8221; Gopeesingh said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source TRINIDAD\/TOBAGO, April 5, 2011: The government will move to make religious education mandatory at all schools, Education Minister Dr.,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}