Education Policy And Reform Terms

noun a principle that involves the separation of government institutions and the persons mandated to represent the State from religious institutions and religious dignitaries

• Secularism is the principle of separating government institutions and religious institutions.
• Some people believe in secularism because they value the separation of church and state.
• Secularism is all about keeping religion out of politics.
• In a world of secularism, everyone is free to practice their own beliefs without interference.

adjective describing something that is not based on scientific principles or methods

• The researcher's methodology was deemed unscientific by the peer review committee.
• That study seems pretty unscientific to me.
• I don't trust that unscientific nonsense.
• His arguments were so unscientific, they crumbled under scrutiny.