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Religious EducationTeaching Hinduism to MalaysiansMalaysia Hindu Dharma Mamandram (MHDM) embarked on an ambitious project in the 1990's to produce a comprehensive syllabus for the teaching of Hinduism to students and adults. The syllabus which is for six levels of Hindu religious education was produced after about 10 years of research. Accompanying materials such as teacher resource books, lesson plans and collection of Hindu hymns and religious songs were also compiled and printed. Starting 1999, MHDM started providing training to at least one teacher from every Tamil school in the country to use these syllabuses and resource materials to teach Hinduism to Hindu students. Many others from national schools, volunteers and MHDM officials have also been trained to teach Hinduism using the syllabus and other resource materials. MHDM is now in the final stages of producing four publications, namely
RecommendationsSince 1999, Malaysia Hindu Dharma Mamandram has been appealing to the government to take the appropriate actions to enable the teaching of Hinduism to Hindu students in schools using the syllabus prepared by MHDM. MHDM is prepared to allow the syllabus and resource materials to be used by teachers in schools. Also, Malaysia Hindu Dharma Mamandram is prepared to assist the Ministry of Education to implement the teaching of Hinduism to Hindu students in schools.
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Quote of the Day
Hinduism...gave itself no name, because it set itself no sectarian limits; it claimed no universal adhesion, asserted no sole infallible dogma, set up no single narrow path or gate of salvation; it was less a creed or cult than a continuously enlarging tradition of the God ward endeavor of the human spirit. An immense many-sided and many staged provision for a spiritual self-building and self-finding, it had some right to speak of itself by the only name it knew, the eternal religion, Santana Dharma...
Sri Aurobindo |