Cedarville College Bulletin, October 1922

EDUCATION AND RELIGION "Too frequently religious education has been regarded as a thing apart. Rather is it the natural and logical conclusion of all education, just as religion is the natural and complete expression of man's being. "-Horne's Psychological Principles of Education. "To produce character education must call to her assistance religion."-Ex-President Hadley of Yale. "To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society."-Theodore Roosevelt. "Education and religion should be so interwoven that each becomes a part of the other. "-Henry Church-ill King. "Education is the gradual adjustment to the spiritual possessions of the race."-Nicholas Murray Butler. "Religion, instead of being a department of education, is an implicit motive thereof. It is the end that presides over the begin– ning and gives unity to all stages of the process."-George Albert Coe. "The main difference between the best and the worst personali– ties is in the choice by another hand than their own of the circum– stances which shall play upon them in youth, out of which spring the thoughts, feelings, acts of choice and efforts which make the , man. That choice by another hand is education."-George Steven. "Character is caught, not taught. It is not propositions, not definitions, not demonstrations, that give inspiration, but the touch of life."-Henry Churchill King. "How is it possible that society should escape destruction if the moral tie be :riot strengthened in proportion as the political tie is relaxed?"-De Toqueville. "Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, the reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle." ·-Washington's Farewell Address. "Religion, morality, and knowledge being necessary to good government, schools and the means of education shall be forever encouraged."-Act of Congress, 1787. "After God had carried us safe to ew England and we had builded our houses, provided necessaries for our livelihood, reared convenient places for God's worship, and settled the Civil govern– ment, one of the next things we longed for and looked after was to -4-