Antagonism Quote by Charles Tupper

If religious instruction were not allowed until the child had attained the age of reason, we would be living in a quite different world.

— Christopher Hitchens

Casting an eye on the education of children, from whence I can make a judgment of my own, I observe they are instructed in…

— George Berkeley

No parent ought to punish a child except with a view to the child's good. And in order to do good to a child…

— Henry Clay Trumbull

“It would be unjust toward children to introduce them to Christian teaching and existence only as little pagans and catechumens, in order to leave…

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

Education ought everywhere to be religious education. At the same time, parents are farther bound to employ no instructors who will not educate their…

— Timothy Dwight V

The parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall rob their children of faith in God and send…

— William Jennings Bryan

“...moral and religious education, and especially the education a child receives at home, where parents are allowed - even expected - to determine for…

— Nicholas Humphrey

“Indoctrinating a child with fundamentalist religious doctrine warps their instinctive attributes and causes them to contradict reason by default.”

— Al Stefanelli

Children are free moral agents and have a right to be exposed to a range of beliefs well beyond the rigid doctrinal confines of…

— Tim Wise

Let the children...be carefully instructed in the principles and obligations of the Christian religion. This is the most essential part of education.

— Benjamin Rush

We know that if religion is allowed into schools, pupils will sometimes begin to question the teaching they receive.

— Najat Vallaud-Belkacem

“Children should be directed and encouraged to ask their parents questions concerning the things of God, a practice which would be perhaps of all…

— Matthew Henry