Should Civic Studies Be Introduced in Our Educational System ?

Every day I see people fight religious leaders for things that are primarily the responsibility of the government.
Things like roads, healthcare, education, industries are now used to rate the works of religious leader instead of the govt.
People are happy to graduate and not practice what they have studied but expect the society to have enough skilled hands and function smoothly.
Take private universities as example, most of them were established to address specific problems facing the society today, if the govt was up and doing I am sure most of the private universities won't attract as much interest as they are attracting today.
My stance is that govt should re-introduce civic studies into our system so people become more aware about how the society is suppose to function and make better decisions.
What do Nairalanders think?

Personally I feel these religious leaders, or churches are rich enough to provide social amenities. I mean it's one of their functions. It's not enough to collect tithe.

HeyCorleone:
Personally I feel these religious leaders, or churches are rich enough to provide social amenities. I mean it's one of their functions. It's not enough to collect tithe.

Even though it is just what you feel, I will pretend you are right and go on to say this : social amenities is not the responsibility or even primary responsibility of the church.
Charity is different from responsibility. A father has his offspring to take care of physically and spiritually as his responsibility.
He may then do charity to widows around as his financial strength dictates.
The mere fact that "you feel the church is rich enough" doesn't transfer the task of social amenities provision to churches

Desyner:
Even though it is just what you feel, I will pretend you are right and go on to say this : social amenities is not the responsibility or even primary responsibility of the church.
Charity is different from responsibility. A father has his offspring to take care of physically and spiritually as his responsibility.
He may then do charity to widows around as his financial strength dictates.
The mere fact that "you feel the church is rich enough" doesn't transfer the task of social amenities provision to churches

I am not transferring all to them. But they have a role to play.

Someone yesterday pointed out that institution opened by Tai Solarin, a supposed atheist, is way way way more affordable than those opened by these churches. It goes a long way to show you just how little they are doing.

HeyCorleone:



I am not transferring all to them. But they have a role to play.

Someone yesterday pointed out that institution opened by Tai Solarin, a supposed atheist, is way way way more affordable than those opened by these churches. It goes a long way to show you just how little they are doing.

I hope the Tai Solarin institution matches the private church uni in terms of what the students enjoy. Stop introducing wrong comparison here. Doesn't the church give scholarship beyond first degree among many other things.
With civic studies I believe we won't be having this conversation.