Public Schools are Not Religiously Neutral!

Horace Mann, the father of compulsory education, made this remark:

“The common school [public school] is the institution which can receive and train up children in the elements of all good knowledge and of virtue before they are subjected to the alienating competitions of life. This institution is the greatest discovery ever made by man: we repeat it, the common school is the greatest discovery ever made by man. In two grand , characteristic attributes, it is supereminent over all others: first in its universality, for it is capacious enough to receive and cherish in its paternal bosom every child that comes into the world: and second, in the timeliness of the aid it proffers, - its early, seasonable supplies of counsel and guidance making security antedate danger. Other social organizations are curative and remedial: this is a preventative and an antidote. They come to deal diseases and wounds; this, to make the physical and moral frame invulnerable to them. Let the common school be expanded to its capabilities, let it be worked with the efficiency of which it is susceptible, and nine-tenths of the crimes in the penal code would become obsolete; the long catalogue of human ills would be abridged; men would walk more safely by day; every pillow would be more inviolable by night; property, life, and character held by stronger tenure; all rational hopes respecting the future brightened. [Common School Journal, Vol. 3, No. 1, Jan., 1841, p. 15.].”

This quote comes from a brief article written by Randy Booth, discussing the fact that public schools are not religiously neutral. It is no wonder that 80 – 90% of young adults leave the Church, which they spent three hours a week of their childhood at, after at least 12 years of 36 hours a week being taught a religion antithetical to our holy Confession. Parents must wake up to the fact that they are merely fostering children for Caesar by allowing them to be nutured in his “paternal bosom" with a false gospel!