Decades Quote by David Barton

The public school has become the established church of secular society.

— Ivan Illich

I sincerely believe that the collective efforts of many secularists during the past generation, resulting in the expulsion from our schools and from the…

— Jerry Falwell

In our secular society, school has become the replacement for church, and like church it requires that its teachings must be taken on faith.

— John Taylor Gatto

Education should be totally secular. I am not telling people not to believe in God, but it should be a personal matter which should…

— Nawal El Saadawi

America's founding fathers did not intend to take religion out of education. Many of the nation's greatest universities were founded by evangelists and religious…

— Billy Graham

Secular schools can never be tolerated because such a school has no religious instruction and a general moral instruction without a religious foundation is…

— Adolf Hitler

The fact that institutional churches have gone into decline doesn't mean that we're going to enter some purely secular age. Secular people need to…

— Ross Douthat

In America our public schools are intended to be religiously neutral. Our teachers and schools are neither to endorse nor to inhibit religion. I…

— Adam Hamilton

The Golden Age of Secularism has passed.

— Jacques Berlinerblau

Just because many modern academics are very secular does not mean that we should ignore those factors in earlier generations - and by that,…

— Philip Jenkins

I think there are really are some public schools, incredibly successful public schools, that are inculcating a real educational ethic in their students.

— Charles Best

In Holland, they have come to precisely the same conclusion. There they have adopted a system of secular education, because they have found it…

— Richard Cobden