Becoming Quote by Simone Weil

It is a mistake to try to impose Christian beliefs on children and to make them the basis of moral training. The moral education…

— Margaret E. Knight

The brutal truth is, we're scarcely 'educating' children at all. Even if you overlook the guilt, fear, bigotry, and dangerous anti-intellectual flapdoodle being funneled…

— Tom Robbins

“It would be unjust toward children to introduce them to Christian teaching and existence only as little pagans and catechumens, in order to leave…

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

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

Education is the art of helping young people to completeness; for the Christian, this means education is helping a young person to be more…

— Basil Moreau

“When it comes to the education of our young, this privilege should only be given to those whose visions are solely in the uplifting…

— C. JoyBell C

Education is in danger of becoming a religion based on fear; its doctrine is to compete. Our children are being led to believe that…

— Eda LeShan

Religious education is only valuable intellectually, if the child is educated in a religion versus [just] about a religion. I don't believe you can…

— Susan Jacoby

“The education and training of children is among the most meritorious acts of humankind and draweth down the grace and favour of the All-Merciful,…

— Anonymous

Children have the wisdom of God and are closer to it than many people who have spent years in this world gaining all kinds…

— Harold Klemp

There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing them over to be taught by the religious.

— Polly Toynbee

The object of education is not merely to enable our children to gain their daily bread and to acquire pleasant means of recreation, but…

— Hermann Adler