ABSTRACT
This chapter seeks to convince you of the educational importance of RE and its place in the school curriculum. It starts by presuming you are not convinced of that or, if you are, asking you to consider your justifi cations for that. It presents some historical reasons for why RE is already a compulsory subject and goes on to question why we should consider teaching young people about religion and how that has been justifi ed through to the present day. It poses some objections to this before, fi nally, suggesting we need to reconsider what RE is there for and how that has to focus on RE being part of the overall curriculum and the development of young people.
