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The parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall rob their children of faith in God and send them back to their homes skeptical, or infidels, or agnostics, or atheists.

— William Jennings Bryan

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing them over to be taught by the religious.

— Polly Toynbee

The public schools tend to teach little kids from when they are very young about the whole universe without God and that God cannot be in science. They are indoctrinating children in an atheistic religious view of things.

— Ken Ham

Many people want to send their children to faith schools because they get good exam results, but they're not foolish enough to believe that it's because of faith that they get good exam results.

— Richard Dawkins

I believe that religious faith schools are highly dubious.

— Bjorn Ulvaeus

In America our public schools are intended to be religiously neutral. Our teachers and schools are neither to endorse nor to inhibit religion. I believe this is a very good thing.

— Adam Hamilton

I think parents should be able to teach their kids what their faith says, what science says.

— Marco Rubio

Parents have a right to insist that godless evolution not be taught to their children.

— Pat Buchanan

Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.

— Alan Watts

✗Opposing Perspectives

Children are free moral agents and have a right to be exposed to a range of beliefs well beyond the rigid doctrinal confines of their parent's faith, and we have an obligation to insist that they be so exposed, at least in public schools, if not elsewhere.

— Tim Wise

That children shall be compelled to receive religious instruction which is in antagonism to the wishes of their parents, is what no man with say sense of justice would suggest.

— Charles Tupper