What Our Schools Are Forbidden To Teach...

The following is taken from a tract "What Our Schools Are Forbidden To Teach Is Destroying Us!"

Nicholas Murray Butler, 1862-1947, American president of Columbia University

"....In this day and generation we are beginning to forget the place which religious (Bible) instruction must occupy in education if that education is to be truly sound and liberal.  We seem to forget that until some two hundred years ago religious instruction everywhere dominated education: religion guided education, shaped education, and selected the material for education in every part of the world-in the Orient, in Europe and in the Americas....Then particularly in this democracy of ours, a curious tendency grew up to exclude religious (Bible) teaching altogether from education on the ground that such teaching was in conflict with our fundamental doctrine of separation of Church and State...The result was to give paganism new importance and new influence...."