Church-State Violation in College Classroom or Just Stupid?
My Introduction to Engineering class requires I buy and read the book "Seven Habits of Highly Effective People" by Stephen Covey. The continual references to God and the parallels drawn between following the advice of this book and following the teachings of different religions is unsettling to me. I understand that religion and religious texts should enter academia in some circumstances (comparative religion classes, literature classes, etc.), but using a popular Self-Help book as a textbook seems, at the very least, to detract from the professor's credibility. At worst, this decision seems to be the professor's way of throwing religious ethics at us as justification for being organized.
It seems to me that several entirely secular and widely-used textbooks probably exist on the subject of good study- and living-habits in the adult world. I know my psychology textbook had the first section devoted entirely to this.
Would I have a case on the religion violation?
No, even if it's a state university. State universities sometimes come under fire because they are partially funded by the government. But "academic freedom" wins out.
If you go to a private university or college, you definitely have no choice. Speaking as someone who went to a state university for 4 years undergrad and 2 years graduate school, you're probably going to be assigned lot of worse reading than whatever is in that book. That's college where professors are all Kings in their kingdoms.
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