secularization of schools

He defended the government against the liberal and democratic opposition; and, at this time, he began his struggle against the secularization of schools, which continued throughout his life.

For the first year, officials expect to enroll 100 students, 80 to 90 percent of whom would be home-schooled - a movement fueled, in part, by parental discontent over the secularization of schools.

Chirac's controversial "Hijab ban" law, presented as secularization of schools, was interpreted by its critics as an "indirect legitimization of anti-Arab stereotypes, fostering rather than preventing racism."

Mexicans of liberal views, however, criticized ecclesiastical privileges and immunities, attacked the church's role in education, and demanded the secularization of schools up to and including the University of Mexico.

While appealing more and more to conventional families, home-schooling - embraced anew in the past 10 to 15 years - was rooted largely in the religious misgivings over the secularization of schools and the teaching of such subjects as evolution.

Friedrich Adolph Wilhelm Diesterweg (born October 29, 1790 in Siegen, died July 7, 1866 in Berlin) was a German educator and thinker who, also a progressive liberal politician, campaigned for the secularization of schools, and is said to be precursory to the reform of pedagogy.

There are two major trends in home schooling: one philosophy is rooted in religious objections to the secularization of schools and to teaching subjects like evolution; the other, the more free-form philosophy called unschooling, initially embraced by families who considered themselves part of the counterculture, encourages independent expression and exposure to a broad menu of experiences.