Bible Quote by Fisher Ames

[Why] should not the Bible regain the place it once held as a school book? Its morals are pure, its examples captivating and noble.…

— Fisher Ames

Should not the Bible regain the place it once held as a schoolbook? Its morals are pure, its examples are captivating and noble…In no…

— Fisher Ames

It is a mistake to think that books have come to stay. The human race did without them for thousands of years and may…

— E M Forster

“Families are setting aside more money to buy school books every year, yet there is no budget for the Bible. Sad, isn’t it! Our…

— Benjamin Nzuki

Books will soon be obsolete in the schools... Our school system will be completely changed in the next ten years.

— Thomas A. Edison

The Bible, when not read in schools, is seldom read in any subsequent period of life...The Bible...should be read in our schools in preference…

— Benjamin Rush

Textbooks are no longer given to schoolchildren; they're too expensive. So they're given to the teachers, who probably need them more.

— Sarah Churchwell

If we were to remove the Bible from public schools we would be wasting so much time punishing crimes and taking so little pains…

— Benjamin Rush

If the Bible is what it claims to be, how can we allow it to remain on a bookshelf?

— Steven J Lawson

We have a dangerous trend beginning to take place in our education. We're starting to put more and more textbooks into our schools. We've…

— Fisher Ames

I think of children's books as not so much for children, but as the filling that goes between the child world and the adult…

— Michael Rosen

Books should be cherished, like children, books are for the next generation, like children, like history.

— Edna Ferber