The Radical Left's View Of Public Education: Some Interesting Quotes
(CHART #7)


   "_Education is thus a most powerful ally of Humanism, and every
American public school is a school of Humanism_. What can a theistic
Sunday School's meeting, for an hour once a week and teaching only a
fraction of the children, do to stem the tide of the five day program of
Humanistic teaching?" (emphasis ours)

   -- Charles Francis Potter, 1930
      Honorary President of the National Education Association
      Signatory to the _Humanist Manifesto I_

   "_I am convinced that the battle for humankind's future must be waged
and won in the public school classroom_ by teachers who correctly
perceive their role as the proselytizers of a new faith... These
teachers must embody the same selfless dedication as the most rabid
fundamentalist preachers, for they will be ministers of another sort,
utilizing a classroom instead of a pulpit _to convey Humanist values in
whatever subject they teach_, regardless of the educational level --
preschool day care or large state university. The classroom must and
will become an arena of conflict between the old and the new -- the
rotting corpse of Christianity, _together with all its adjacent evils
and misery_, and the new faith of Humanism, resplendent in its promise
of a world in which the never realized Christian ideal of 'love thy
neighbor' will finally be achieved." (emphasis ours)

   -- John Dunphy
      Award winning essay
      _The Humanist_, January, 1983

   "Pat [Buchanan] is the guy who at the Republican Convention in 1988,
in Houston, said that _there is a religious war for the soul of
America_. He recently told us on the air that he believes that _the
public schools are the principle battle ground of that religious war_
and, unfortunately, he's not right about much, but _he is right about
that_." (emphasis ours)

   -- Barry Lynn
      Executive Director of Americans United
      1994 Americans United National Conference

The Bible says:

   "A student is not above his teacher, but everyone who is fully trained
will be like his teacher." -- Luke 6:40

From: St. Louis MetroVoice, May 1995, Vol. 5, No. 5.

