Religious Schools Quotes

I went to religious schools. I wasn't that enthusiastic, by and large, but it sunk in.

The applicability of the Establishment Clause to public funding of benefits to religious schools was settled in Everson v. Board of Ed. of Ewing, which inaugurated the modern era of establishment doctrine.

Young minds are not for thinking. We catch them for the madrassas [religious schools] when they are young, and by the time they are old enough to think, they know what to think.

The Court's majority holds that the Establishment Clause is no bar to Ohio's payment of tuition at private religious elementary and middle schools under a scheme that systematically provides tax money to support the schools' religious missions.

Nothing more than institutionalized pedophilia.

Educational systems should be vehicles to tolerance, not tools for propaganda, and should never be used to install enmity and hatred. One of the root causes of the ongoing tragic events in the Middle East was the systematic misuse of education through schools and the media by the Palestinian Authority.

I am not against Muslim schools. But as I believe in integration, I think we would be better off overall if we did not have denominational schools at all.

Religious-based and ethnic-based schools act as points of division in society, often breeding prejudice and fear …

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

I am and have always been a strong proponent of public education. But by the virtue of its very nature - publicly funded schools cannot offer the type of spiritual education that Catholic schools have long provided.

[I]t would be unjust to our people and dangerous to our institutions to apply any portion of revenues of the nation or of the States to the support of sectarian schools.

I am opposed to the Federal Government spending any money to sustain church schools ….

Zealous groups threaten to infringe civil liberties when they seek government support to impose their own religious views on non-adherents. This has taken many forms, including attempts to introduce organized prayer in public schools, to outlaw birth control and abortion, and to use public tax revenues to finance religious schools.

Whatever help the nation can justly afford should be generously given to aid the States in supporting common schools; but it would be unjust to our people and dangerous to our institutions to apply any portion of the revenues of the nation or of the States to the support of sectarian schools.

What changed their mind was Jimmy Carter's intervention against the Christian schools, trying to deny them tax-exempt status on the basis of so-called de facto segregation.

How any government could promote the Vardy academies in the North-East of England is absolutely beyond me. Tony Blair defends them on grounds of diversity, but it should be unthinkable in the 21st century to have a school whose head of science believes the world is less than 10,000 years old.

I think I would abolish schools which systematically inculcate sectarian beliefs.

Um, what I found though about the Christian Brothers is this: that they were certainly muscular.