What did they say about education? Aug.4,1789, The Northwest Ordinance-”Religion, morality and knowledge being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools,and ·the means of education shall forever be encouraged.”/ James Madison-2nd annual message to congress-Dec.S,1810-”A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.”/ Laws and statutes for students of 1643 college- “Let every student be plainly instructed and earnestly pressed to consider well the main end of his life and studies is to know God and Jesus Christ which is eternal life (John 17:3) .”/Cotton Mather-”much religion was a friend unto good literature.”/ At college graduation by Monsieur Guitton-“Avoid pride, sloth, and antichrist. “/ Ben. Rush-signer of Declaration- “Without religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals· and principles of mankind.”/ Declaration says-”The Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God ... all Men are created equal,they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights ... Appealing to the Supreme Judge of the World.”/ Federalist No. 55, by Hamilton or Madison, discusses the necessity in a Republican (representative) form of government for both electors and those elected to be of good character.’’/ Ben. Rush, the father of public schools, 1786- “The only foundation for a useful education in a republic is to be laid on the foundation of religion. Without this there can be no virtue, and without virtue there can be no liberty, and liberty is the object and life of all republican governments. “ / William Penn, May 5, 1682- “that .. which makes a good constitution must keep it vie: men of wisdom and virtue, .. must be carefully propagated by a virtuous education of youth.”/ Theodore Roosevelt- “to educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.”/ Noah Webster- “Education .. forms the moral characters of men, and morals are the basis of government, Education should therefore be the first care of a legislature .. furnishing of them the best men for teachers ... a good system of education should be the first article in the code of political regulations .. establish an effectual system for preserving morals,than to correct by penal statutes the ill effects of a bad system ... the education of youth .. lays the foundation on which both law and gospel rest for success .. to give them a religious education is indispensable and immense responsibility rests on parents and guardians who neglect these duties ... in the family are formed the elements of civil governments .. family discipline is the model of all social order .. respect for the law and the magistrate begins in the respect for parents ... the parent who neglects to restrain and govern his child .. corrupts him,is the enemy of the community ... “/ G. Washington- “refined education on mind... reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.”/ Noah Webster- “Education is useless without the bible .. The Bible was America’s basic text book in all fields” ...l828- “the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed ... the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people ... “/ Noah Webster had funds appropriated for education and declared government was responsible-” Discipline our youth in early life in sound maxims of moral, political and religious duties.”/ Thomas Dilworth published his schoolbook in 1740, its first lesson of three letters long, ”No man may put off the Law of God. The Way of God is no ill Way. My Joy is in God all the Day.A bad Man is a Foe to God.” Noah Webster (Schoolmaster to America) used only Dilworth’s book and the Bible. Thomas Dilworth said- “(rescue) poor creatures from the Slavery of Sin and satan by setting the word of God for a Lantern to our feet and a light to our Paths.”/ Henry Fielding- “Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.”/ Ben Franklin- “A Bible and a newspaper in every house, a good school in every district-all studied and as they merit-are the principal support of virtue, morality and civil liberty.”/1636 University declared the purpose of the college was to “train a literate clergy.”/ Oliver Wendell Holmes, March 8, 1931 on his 90th birthday- “Young man, the secret of mysuccess is that at an early age I discovered I was not God.”/ Abe Lincoln- “the philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.”/ Get a copy of the first textbooks in America such as ‘The New England Primer’ and you will see the difference.