Quotes About Education

Rule of thumb: Be skeptical of things you learned before you could read. E.g., religion.

Dear Religion, This week I safely dropped a man from space while you shot a child in the head for wanting to go to school. Yours, Science.

Only a very few can be learned, but all can be Christian, all can be devout, and – I shall boldly add – all can be theologians.

Neo-Darwinists ask us to believe in things not seen. We're not supposed to have an established religion in America, but we do, and it's called Darwinism .

Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion--a form of knowledge without the power of it.

I studied English literature; I took 2 independent religion classes, but I wasn't a religion major really.

Creationism: God's gift to the ignorant.

There are a lot of legislators who are afraid that kids will learn science and lose their faith.

Catholic school gave me the tools to reject the very religion they wanted me to have. They taught me how to think for myself and to be independent.

O Lord, I wish to promote thy holy religion which is dreadfully neglected. I am desirous to save young persons from the vices of the age.

Education belongs pre-eminently to the church ... neutral or lay schools from which religion is excluded are contrary to the fundamental principles of education.

To teach kids that creationism explains something about the world is no different than teaching them that the earth is flat.

I hated school right away. Religion had a lot to do with it because I felt like everybody was always lying to me.

Americans know more about religion than almost any other topic.

There was no known cure for a Catholic education.

The only foundation for useful education in a republic is to be laid in religion.

somewhere about the eighteenth century, history tacitly replaced religion as the school of public morals.

Religion is compulsory in English schools, you know.

There are millions of young children being educated to a very narrow-minded view of religion. And it's out of that education of large numbers of young people that you then get this extremism.

Atheists have just as much civil right to teach atheism as Christians have to teach Christianity; agnostics have just as much right to teach agnosticism as Christians have to teach their religion.

I do believe that the original sources of all religions should be taught, because with that we will find our similarities, not just our differences.

Culture, religion, and education, are conspiracies to standardize worldviews.

They haven't eliminated religion from the public school. They have eliminated Christianity and have replaced it with an anti-God religion—humanism.

I've been in elementary education for years and my belief is that Christmas pageants in schools are little more than conditioning kids for the Christian religion.