Benjamin Rush Quotes about Education

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If we were to remove the Bible from public schools we would be wasting so much time punishing crimes and taking so little pains to prevent them.

If we were to remove the Bible from public schools we would be wasting so much time punishing crimes and taking so little pains to prevent them.

Benjamin Rush

Bible, Christian, Education

The only means of establishing and perpetuating our republican forms of government is the universal education of our youth in the principles of Christianity by means of the Bible.

Benjamin Rush

Education, Mean, Patriotic

Benjamin Rush (1806). “Essays, Literary, Moral and Philosophical ...”, p.112

I grant this mode of secluding boys from the intercourse of private families has a tendency to make them scholars, but our business is to make them men, citizens, and Christians. The vices of young people are generally learned from each other. The vices of adults seldom infect them. By separating them from each other, therefore, in their hours of relaxation from study, we secure their morals from a principal source of corruption, while we improve their manners by subjecting them to those restraints which the difference of age and sex naturally produce in private families.

Benjamin Rush

Christian, Education, Sex

Benjamin Rush (1988). “Essays: Literary, Moral and Philosophical”, Union College

While the business of education in Europe consists in lectures upon the ruins of Palmyra and the antiquities of Herculaneum , or in disputes about Hebrew points, Greek particles, or the accent and quantity of the Roman language, the youth of America will be employed in acquiring those branches of knowledge which increase the conveniences of life.

Benjamin Rush

Education, Country, Europe

"Letters".

Such is my veneration for every religion that reveals the attributes of the Deity, or a future state of rewards and punishments, that I had rather see the opinions of Confucius or Mahomed inculcated upon our youth than see them grow up wholly devoid of a system of religious principles.

Benjamin Rush

Education, Religious, Growing Up

Benjamin Rush (1806). “Essays, Literary, Moral and Philosophical ...”, p.8

The business of education has lay[ed] the foundations for nurseries of wise and good men, to adapt our modes of teaching to the peculiar form of our government . . . . He must be taught to love his fellow creatures in every part of the world, but he must cherish with a more intense and peculiar affection the citizens of Pennsylvania and of the United States.

Benjamin Rush

Education, Wise, Teaching