Mitch van Biljon The Founders on Christian education George Washington: “What students would learn in American schools above all is the religion of Jesus Christ.” speech to the Delaware Indian Chiefs May 12, 1779 “[...See More 23 hrs · Like · 2 Mitch van Biljon Joseph Story: “Why may not the Bible, and especially the New Testament, without note or comment, be read and taught as Divine revelation in the college [school]—its general precepts expounded, its evidences explained and its glorious principles of mora...See More 23 hrs · Like · 2 Mitch van Biljon In Benjamin Franklins 1749 plan of education for public schools in Pennsylvania, he insisted that schools teach the excellency of the Christian religion above all others, ancient or modern. Gouverneur Morris: “Religion is the only solid basis of go...See More 23 hrs · Like · 2 Mitch van Biljon Samuel Adams: “Let divines and philosophers, statesmen and patriots, unite their endeavors to renovate the age by impressing the minds of men with the importance of educating their little boys and girls, inculcating in the minds of youth the fear and love of the Deity… and leading them in the study and practice of the exalted virtues of the Christian system.” October 4, 1790. “As piety, religion and morality have a happy influence on the minds of men, in their public as well as private transactions, you will not think it unseasonable, although I have frequently done it, to bring to your remembrance the great importance of encouraging our University, town schools, and other seminaries of education, that our children and youth while they are engaged in the pursuit of useful science, may have their minds impressed with a strong sense of the duties they owe to their God.” Samuel Adams, The Writings of Samuel Adams, Harry Alonzo Cushing, editor (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1908), Vol. IV, p. 401, to the Legislature of Massachusetts on January 27, 1797. Thomas Paine: “ It has been the error of the schools to teach astronomy, and all the other sciences, and subjects of natural philosophy, as accomplishments only; whereas they should be taught theologically, or with reference to the Being who is the author of them: for all the principles of science are of divine origin. Man cannot make, or invent, or contrive principles: he can only discover them; and he ought to look through the discovery to the Author
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