Author: Samuel Windsor Brown

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2016-12-23

Total Pages: 174

ISBN-13: 9781334752315

Excerpt from The Secularization of American Education, as Shown by State Legislation, State Constitutional Provisions and State Supreme Court Decisions For somewhat over a century there has been going on in the United States a gradual but widespread elimination of religious and church in uences from public education. During the early years of our history, especially during the colonial period, educa tion and religion, the school and the church, were close allies. One of the aims of elementary education was to inculcate religious beliefs; of higher education, to prepare religious teachers. The subject matter of instruction was largely religious in its nature. Church authorities exercised considerable control over educational affairs. The warmest advocates of education were those who had in view the needs of the church. Today we find in every state a system of public education in which civic and industrial aims are dominant, in which religious instruction is either entirely eliminated or else reduced to the barest and most formal elements, and the control of which is vested well nigh exclusively in the state or some sub-division thereof. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."