The Ten Commandments in Classrooms?

Over the years there have been on-again, off-again calls to put the Ten Commandments in school classrooms.  We are now in one of those “on-again” times.

The people who advocate posting the Ten Commandments appear to want to emphasize Christianity in the schools, to help bring up our children as Christians.  But our first Amendment to the Constitution clearly bars that.  Even more problematic is the fact that the Ten Commandments is not strictly a Christian list.  

Wikipedia says

The Ten Commandments, or the Decalogue, are religious and ethical directives, structured as a covenant document, that, according to the Hebrew Bible, were given by YHWH to Moses. The text of the Ten Commandments appears in three markedly distinct versions in the Bible: at Exodus 20:1–17, Deuteronomy 5:6–21, and the "Ritual Decalogue" of Exodus 34:11–26. [Wikipedia]

Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are thought of as the “Abrahamic” religions as they all trace to the early stories in what many call the Old Testament.  All three could thus lay claim the Ten Commandments, but Judaism probably has priority, as it was Moses who delivered them.

But no one needs to argue about who owns them, or whether they should be in schools.  There is a much better way to put great moral principles in our schools. We could be sure a great, almost universal spiritual principle is heard by all people growing up in the United States simply by posting the “Golden Rule” in every classroom.  There is a version of that in almost every major religion in the world — no single ‘wisdom tradition' would be advocated, no violation of the Constitution, and a great overarching moral principle highlighted for all our children every day.

Versions of the Golden Rule from different Wisdom Traditions [Wikipedia]

Buddhism – Hurt not others with that which pains yourself.   Udanavarga 5.18.

Christianity – Always treat others as you would like them to treat you.  Matthew 7:12.

Confucianism – Do not unto others what you would not they should do unto you.  Analects 15.23.

Hinduism – This is the sum of duty: Do nothing to others which if done to you, would cause you pain. Mahabharata 5.15.17

Islam – No one of you is a believer until he loves for his brother what he loves for himself.  Traditions.

Jainism – In happiness and suffering, in joy and grief, we should regard all creatures as we regard our own self, and therefore should refrain from inflicting upon others such injury as would appear undesirable to us if inflicted upon ourselves.  Yogashastra 2.20.

Judaism – What is hurtful to yourself do not to your fellow man.  That is the whole of the Torah and the remainder is but commentary.  Go learn it.  Talmud.

Sikhism – As you deem yourself so deem others.  Then you will become a partner in partner to Heaven.  Kabir.

Taoism – Regard your neighbor’s loss as your own loss.  T’ai shang kan ying p’ien.

List them all.  Think of all that could be learned and ingrained from such a list, made ubiquitous.  The Talmud says “that is the whole of the Torah”, and I think all the other wisdom traditions would say the same thing in their own ways.

For system dynamics thinkers: What are the structure and dynamics of such a transition? Who are the stakeholders? What are their goals? What barriers stand in the way?