Children Quote by Najat Vallaud-Belkacem

We have to reappropriate the concept of laicite (secularism) so we can explain to our young pupils that whatever their faith, they belong to…

— Najat Vallaud-Belkacem

If a big number of young pupils felt secularism was an attack on them, it was because the term had been misused and deformed…

— Najat Vallaud-Belkacem

There are students whose religious upbringing is going to make them feel uncomfortable in a class where certain kinds of secular ideas are presented.…

— Joan Wallach Scott

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

We have to be careful not to have a form of militant secularism in our country, which is counter-productive for children we would like…

— Najat Vallaud-Belkacem

“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

“In any modern society encouraging your child to cut himself is an unthinkable act, but only with religious belief becomes part of the culture,…

— Sean S Kamali

Parents have no right to impose their religion on their children... A Fundamentalist Protestant parent has no right to expect the state to support…

— Paul Kurtz

“Our society, including the non-religious sector, has accepted the preposterous idea that it is normal and right to indoctrinate tiny children in the religion…

— Richard Dawkins

You can somehow get access to what is perceived to be a better school by either being religious or appearing to be religious. That…

— Alice Roberts

“Segregated schools. Children are educated, again often from a very early age, with members of a religious in-group and seperately from children whose families…

— Richard Dawkins