A HISTORY LESSON
An attempt to conduct the affairs of a free government with wisdom and impartiality, and to preserve the just rights of all classes of citizens, without the guidance of Divine precepts, will certainly end in disappointment. God is the Supreme moral Governor of the world He has made, and as He Himself governs with perfect rectitude, He requires His rational creatures to govern themselves in like manner. If men will not submit to be controlled by His laws, He will punish them by evils resulting from their own disobedience…….. Any system of education, therefore, which limits instruction to the arts and sciences and rejects the aids of religion in forming the characters of citizens, is essentially defective…… In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed…… No truth is more evident in my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people.
Noah Webster “
The Father of American Scholarship and Education”
