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Confidence
Belief overview
Critical and scientific education
Education should form autonomy, critical thinking, and scientific literacy.
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Supportive
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Contrary
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Neutral
What it is: Secular humanism usually values public, critical, and intellectually open education.
How the position understands it: Learning to think, argue, revise beliefs, and understand the natural and social world is part of human flourishing and democratic citizenship.
Basis and context: The theme connects to Enlightenment, lay pedagogy, public science, and educational rights.
Debates and variations: Some emphasize science more; others balance sciences, humanities, arts, and ethical formation.
Documentary evidence
Supportive
Paul Kurtz, What Is Secular Humanism?
An influential explanation of modern secular humanism.
Reference: Paul Kurtz, essays such as What Is Secular Humanism?.
Content: Kurtz articulates ethics, reason, science, freedom, and human responsibility without appeal to an obligatory supernatural realm.
Use in debate: It is a central source for the contemporary definition of the movement.
UNESCO and education for global citizenship
Critical education, cooperation, and civic responsibility.
Reference: UNESCO documents on education and global citizenship.
Content: The materials emphasize critical thinking, democratic coexistence, rights, and shared responsibility.
Use in debate: They are useful for critical education and responsibility for the common world.