Key Points
Sir, I move: That in Clause 16 the following new paragraph be added as an explanation All religious education given in educational institutions receiving Statewide will be in the nature of the elementary philosophy of comparative religions calculated to broaden the pupils mind rather than such as will foster sectarian exclusiveness...
The object of the clause, Sir, is as the mover of the report has suggested, to prevent the students attending these schools being forced to attend the religious classes, if they do not wish to do so..
But we have seen that the religious instructions given there are of such a nature that, instead of broadening the mind of the child, they miseducate the mind and sometimes breed a certain type of fanaticism and religious bigotry as a result of receiving education in these Maktabs and Pathasalas...
Therefore, without interfering with the religion of anybody, the State should be perfectly entitled to see that in the formative age of the child, when he is of the school-going age, the religious instruction is controlled and that the syllabus is of such a nature that the child will develop into a healthy citizen of India capable of appreciating each others point of view...
We may be united by political parties, but if we do not appreciate each others religion, we shall find that instead of having really men of religion in our midst, we shall be breeding a type of exclusiveness which will be most harmful and on that type of mind, I am afraid, the future of the nation cannot be built up..
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