Best school & atheism Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I hold that in this country there must be complete severance of Church and State; that public moneys shall not be used for the purpose of advancing any particular creed; and therefore that the public schools shall be nonsectarian and no public moneys appropriated for sectarian schools.”

Country States School Used Purpose Religion Church Atheism Particular Presidential Creeds Public School Church And State Separation Of Church And State Advancing Separation Between Church And State Founding Fathers Atheist

Book:Fear God and Take Your Own Part

Source: Fear God and Take Your Own Part

“If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.”

Ifs Government School Certain Struggle Atheism Conditions Duty Debate Operations

Book:Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi

Source: Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi

“The public schools are supported entirely, in most communities, by public funds-funds exacted not only from parents, nor alone from those who hold particular religious views, nor indeed from those who subscribe to any creed at all.”

School Parent Community Religious Views Atheism Particular Positive Atheism Fund Creeds Public School Religious Views

Author:William J. Brennan

“The modern public school derived from a philosophy of freedom reflected in the First Amendment ... The non-sectarian or secular public school was the means of reconciling freedom in general with religious freedom.”

Firsts Mean Philosophy School Religious Atheism Modern Positive Atheism Amendments Secular Public School First Amendment Religious Freedom

Author:William J. Brennan

“Public education is a good foundation on which to build a better life for each of us. And if we want to prove to these children who never made the mess in the first place that education is worth the trouble, our schools have to inspire them so they can do what they ought to do.”

Ifs Want Firsts Children Made School Can Do Trouble Atheism Inspire Ought Prove Foundation Positive Atheism Mess Better Life Public Education

Author:Bill Cosby

“What holds for adults holds even more for children, sensitive and conscious of differences. I certainly hope that the Board of Education will think very, very seriously before it introduces this division and antagonism in our public schools.”

Thinking Children School Differences Atheism Conscious Adults Sensitive Boards Division Introducing Public School Antagonism Board Of Education

Author:John Dewey

“Zealous groups threaten to infringe civil liberties when they seek government support to impose their own religious views on nonadherents. 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.”

“Half the Christian churches of New York are trying to ruin the free public schools in order to replace them by religious dogma.”

Trying School Christian Order Church Religious Half Atheism New York Positive Atheism Ruins Dogma Public School Christian Church Religious Dogma

Author:W. E. B. Du Bois

“This is regrettable indeed for a nation that aspires to teach democracy to other nations, because, as Burke said: "Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other."”

Said School Nations Teach Democracy Atheism Mankind Example Aspire

Book:The Arrogance of Power

Source: The Arrogance of Power

“The coercive effect of this policy is particularly pronounced in the school setting given the age and impressionability of schoolchildren, and their understanding that they are required to adhere to the norms set by their school, their teacher, and their fellow students.”

Age School Given Understanding Teacher Atheism Effects Policy Students Fellows Positive Atheism Setting Settings Norm

Author:Alfred Goodwin

“The Typical American? He is sent to school Little or much, where he imbibes the rule Of safety first and comfort; in his youth He joins the church and ends the quest of truth.”

Firsts Littles Ends School Church Atheism Youth Comfort Safety Quests Typical Safety First

Author:Edgar Lee Masters

“This issue is whether or not our government should be infusing religion into the public schools. Our churches are very strong in this nation and I think that's great and everybody should have the ability to worship as he or she sees fit. I choose to worship not believing in God and government should not thrust a religious idea down my throat.”

“I think evolution should be taught as an accepted principle. I say that also as the daughter of a school teacher, a science teacher, who has instilled in me a respect for science. I think it should be taught in our schools. I won't ever deny that I see the hand of God in this beautiful creation that is earth. But - that is not a part of state policy or a local curriculum in a school district. Science should be taught in science class.”

“I'm anticlerical, not antireligion. If somebody believes there is God, I'm not interested in trying to persuade that person there is no intelligent design to the universe. Where I become interested and wake up is about the temporal power of religion, things like prayer in schools, or Catholic-secular hospital mergers.”

“Right now religion has the romantic aura of the forbidden - Christ is cool. We need to bring it into the schools, which kids already hate, and associate it firmly with boredom, regulation, condescension, makework and de facto segregation ... Prayer in the schools will rid us of the bland no-offense ecumenism that is so infuriating to us anticlericals: Oh, so now you say Jews didn't kill Christ - a little on the late side, isn't it?”

Source: Subject to Debate: Sense and Dissents on Women, Politics, and Culture

“Because we are unqualifiedly and without reservation against any system of denominational schools, maintained by the adherents of any creed with the help of state aid, therefore, we as strenuously insist that the public schools shall be free from sectarian influences, and above all, free from any attitude of hostility to the adherents of any particular creed.”

States Helping School Attitude Atheism Influence Particular Positive Atheism Aids Creeds Public School Hostility Reservations

Book:Writings

Source: Writings

“But the others, those who tried to bring Jesus to life at the call of love, found it a cruel task to be honest. The critical study of the life of Jesus has been for theology a school of honesty. The world had never seen before, and will never see again, a struggle for truth so full of pain and renunciation as that of which the Lives of Jesus of the last hundred years contain the cryptic record.”

World Years Has Beens School Pain Lasts Found Jesus Struggle Study Records Atheism Honest Honesty Hundred Tasks Critical Positive Atheism Theology Being Honest Renunciation Cryptic

Author:Albert Schweitzer

“I learned very early on that it's necessary but not sufficient for scientists to go to school board meetings and say, 'We shouldn't be teaching creationism.' Being right doesn't mean it'll pass.”

Mean School Atheism Teaching Scientist Meetings Positive Atheism Boards Sufficient Creationism School Board Board Meetings

Author:Eugenie Scott

“Public schools are where the next generation of leaders are educated and where cultural exchange will take place.”

School Next Leader Generations Atheism Positive Atheism Educated Next Generation Public School Cultural Exchange

Author:Eugenie Scott

“I'll long remember the crestfallen look of a pious student when I told him the faculty of a divinity school he planned to attend included a large number of avowed atheists.”

Looks Long School Remember Numbers Atheism Students Atheist Positive Atheism Divinity Faculty Pious Large Numbers

Author:Gary Sloan

“I believe in the support of the public school as one of the cornerstones of American liberty. I believe in the right of every parent to choose whether his child shall be educated in the public school or in a religious school supported by those of his own faith.”

Believe Children School I Believe Parent Religious Liberty Support Atheism I Believe In Positive Atheism Educated Public School Cornerstones American Liberty

Author:Al Smith

“Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.”

“Let them all believe whatever they want. It is pointless to go on radio shows and wrangle over mystical claims. However, such claims must not be imposed on captive children in government-owned schools. That is prohibited by the separation of church and state, a core principle in the First Amendment in America's Bill of Rights.”

“We are a people of many races, many faiths, creeds, and religions. I do not think that the men who made the Constitution forbade the establishment of a State church because they were opposed to religion. They knew that the introduction of religious differences into American life would undermine the democratic foundations of this country. What holds for adults holds even more for children, sensitive and conscious of differences. I certainly hope that the Board of Education will think very, very seriously before it introduces this division and antagonism in our public schools.”

School Quotes

Related topics

School Quotes