(M. Clark) wrote:
:|"No religious reading, instruction or exercise, shall be prescribed or
:|practiced [in the elementary schools] inconsistent with the tenets of
:|any religious sect or denomination." --Thomas Jefferson: Elementary
:|School Act, 1817. ME 17:425
:|
:|M. Clark
Do you even understand what the above was saying?
Do you understand that Jefferson was calling for a totally secular public
school system?
You do understand that it would be impossible to have ANY religious
reading, instruction or exercise that wouldn't be inconsistent with the
tenets of SOME religion sect or denomination?
Thus he was calling for a public school system that would be totally free
of any religious reading, instruction or exercises.
And to go along with that was the following:
Thomas Jefferson supported Bible reading in school; this is proven
by his service as the first president of the Washington, D.C. public
schools, which used the Bible and Watt's Hymns as textbooks for reading.
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/tnppage/arg6.htm
Another Jefferson Quote Debunked
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/jefschl1.htm
Jefferson, Religion, and the Public Schools.
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/tnppage/jeffschl.htm
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