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I confess that for fifteen years my efforts in education, and my hopes of success in establishing a system of national education, have always been associated with the idea of coupling the education of this country with the religious communities which exist.

— Richard Cobden

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Education is the cornerstone of our communities and our country.

— Bill Frist

Because of our sacred regard for each human intellect, we consider the obtaining of an education to be a religious responsibility.

— Russell M. Nelson

Education must, be not only a transmission of culture but also a provider of alternative views of the world and a strengthener of the will to explore them.

— Jerome Bruner

As a proud Catholic, I know the impact that faith-based education can have in our society and have witnessed it first hand in my district.

— Joe Baca

Education enables people and societies to be what they can be.

— Bill Richardson

Education should be totally secular. I am not telling people not to believe in God, but it should be a personal matter which should be done at home.

— Nawal El Saadawi

Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Religion is not only a part of education, an element of humanity, but the center of everything else, always the first and the ultimate, the absolutely original.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

✗Opposing Perspectives

My main hope is eventually, in modern education field, introduce education about warm-heartedness, not based on religion, but based on common experience and a common sort of sense, and then scientific finding.

— Dalai Lama

In Holland, they have come to precisely the same conclusion. There they have adopted a system of secular education, because they have found it impracticable to unite the religious bodies in any system of combined religious instruction.

— Richard Cobden