Church Quote by John Taylor Gatto

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

— Ivan Illich

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

It's really important to say this. Often the faith schools were founded before the state provided education. I want good education in this country…

— Ed Miliband

“School is not like church. I know a lot of people in my school are happy about this, but I think that's because they've…

— David Levithan

The church is always more than a school. But the church cannot be less than a school.

— Jaroslav Pelikan

We should ban faith schools, on the grounds we ought to be teaching valid facts to children; as opposed to preaching invalid beliefs.

— Steve Fowler

It would seem that not only is religion lacking in the schools - so is common sense. I wonder what a teacher is supposed…

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Pope Pius XI

Our public schools began as ministries of the church; now it is time to return them to the Lord.

— Anonymous

School has become the world religion of a modernized proletariat, and makes futile promises of salvation to the poor of the technological age.

— Ivan Illich

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

Christians today are forced to support, with their tax money, the establishment of another religious faith that stands opposed to everything they believe. The…

— Benjamin Hart