Abolish Quote by Richard Dawkins

I would get rid of the Department of Education. I would get rid of the state departments of education and let the local people…

— Paul Orfalea

Some 'separation' zealots would expunge any vestige of religious observance in public schools. Many of the same anti-religious fanatics would like to wipe out…

— Russell Kirk

The schools would fail through their silence, the Church through its forgiveness, and the home through the denial and silence of the parents. The…

— Simon Wiesenthal

I would rather be erring on the side of common-sense pragmatism and doing everything possible so that I felt that no stone was left…

— Anonymous

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

This issue is whether or not our government should be infusing religion into (schools).

— Michael Newdow

Encourage free schools and resolve that not one dollar appropriated for their support shall be appropriated to the support of any sectarian schools. Resolve…

— Ulysses S. Grant

The public schools shall be free from sectarian influences and, above all, free from any attitude of hostility to the adherents of any particular…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Well I've been crystal clear that we should not have schools which are set up by extremists whether they're Christian fundamentalists, Islamic fundamentalists or…

— Michael Gove

[I]t would be unjust to our people and dangerous to our institutions to apply any portion of revenues of the nation or of the…

— James A. Garfield

When I am emperor, I will abolish private education. Private schools, private college. All of these parents with money and energy and the drive…

— Ann Patchett

I do not want any policy to be formulated that impedes the spread of education in any fashion.

— Smriti Irani