ABSTRACT
In a country inhabited by various ethnic, religious and cultural groups, there will be various views of education. There may be a Catholic view, a Quaker view, Islamic, Jewish and other religious views, alongside various secular understandings as well - education being seen as existential, vocational, national. In so far as all these are truly views of education, we may speak of a plurality within education. In addition to thinking of education or different views of education as springing from plurality, we may think of education as leading to pluralism. The chapter discusses two senses in which education may be pluralist, in that education may merely express or actively promote pluralism. The divergent way of teaching is related to such values as openness, enquiry, dialogue and criticism. The many types of Christian criticism have a common root in the critical attitude of the New Testament church.
