Quotes About Education

Religions survive mainly because they brainwash the young.

First of all, our young must be strong. Religion will come afterwards.

I wonder if children don't begin to reject both poetry and religion for similar reasons, because the way both are taught takes the life out of them.

Religion is the solid basis of good morals; therefore education should teach the precepts of religion, and the duties of man toward God.

Immigrants used to come to America seeking freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and freedom from government. Now they come looking for free health care, free education, and a free lunch.

Believe me, the library is the temple of God. Education is the most sacred religion of all.

The Bible. That is what fools have written, what imbeciles commend, what rogues teach and young children are made to learn by heart.

Inculcating the various competing - competing, note - falsehoods of the major faiths into small children is a form of child abuse, and a scandal.

I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.

You must remember that we persecute nobody for religion. We regard religion as an error and fight it with education.

There is little difference in the knowledge held by those who can't learn and those who won't.

Without religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals and principles of mankind.

Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.

Do not feed children on maudlin sentimentalism or dogmatic religion; give them nature

TV serves us most usefully when presenting junk-entertainment; it serves us most ill when it co-opts serious modes of discourse - news, politics, science, education, commerce, religion.

Parents have no right to impose their religion on their children... A Fundamentalist Protestant parent has no right to expect the state to support his own narrow conception of education.

Atheism is an effect of that knowledge [a poll showed atheists knew more about religion than anyone else], not a lack of knowledge. I gave a bible to my daughter. That is how you make atheists.

I'm not of the religion but I'm educated enough to understand there is a misconception about it globally.

That was my real education in the world - I learned politics, the social and cultural life of India, Hindu tradition and religion, and Buddhism.

Even at school I studied ethics instead of religion.

The great trouble is that the preachers get the children from six to seven years of age and then it is almost impossible to do anything with them.

I went to Catholic high school for half a year and religion wasn't the cool thing to talk about even at a catholic high school. It never came up.

I have no confidence in any religion that can be demonstrated only to children.

You cannot be both sane and well educated and disbelieve in evolution. The evidence is so strong that any sane, educated person has got to believe in evolution.