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In reply to the discussion: Atheist teen kicks some ass in the name of the separation of church and state [View all]hfojvt
(37,573 posts)"Knowledge does not comprise all which is contained in the large term of education, the feelings are to be disciplined; the passions are to be restrained; true and worthy motives are to be inspired; a profound religious feeling is to be instilled; and pure morality inculcated under all circumstances. All this is comprised in education." Daniel Webster
"The task of education would be, first and foremost, the transmission of ideas of value, of what to do with our lives. There is no doubt also the need to transmit know-how but this must take second place, for it is obviously somewhat foolhardy to put great powers into the hands of people without making sure they have a reasonable idea of what to do with them. At present, there can be little doubt that the whole of mankind is in mortal danger, not because we are short of scientific and technological know-how, but because we tend to use it destructively, without wisdom. More education can help us only if it produces more wisdom." EF Schumacher "Small is Beautiful" p 82
"You cannot put enough in the brain of a man to overcome the harm you do him if you take faith out of his heart." William Jennings Bryan
"There are seven thousand college men in our prisons; how much good has education done them? The country spent its money to educate them, but their hearts went wrong, and their hearts took their brains with them." op. cit.
"Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it" Proverbs 22: 6
"Fundamentally, there is no right education except growing up into a worthwhile world. indeed, our excessive concern with problems of education at present simply mean that the grown-ups do not have such a world." Paul Goodman "Compulsory Mis-education" 1962 p. 58
Clearly, some defenders of the prayer do not know their own faith well enough, and think it is a good and proper thing to hate evil. This is a belief. however, also shared by those of a more liberal persuasion, one of the things our society teaches http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=228358
Clearer?
I highly doubt it.