Banning Prayer in Schools
When schools first opened hundreds of years ago prayer was always enforced, and the Bible was the only book most schools had to read. Our first constitutional right states that we have the right to freedom of speech and freedom of religion, and as our right the government can not tell us when it is appropriate to pray. The government is only taking away yet another right making us weaker and themselves stronger. The bible being the first book in education, the first amendment, moment of silence in school, the religious freedom amendment, and how society have reacted to this situation help to reach my opinion on prayer in schools. The oldest known system of education was to teach religion and promote traditions of people. In the western world education was based on Biblical traditions of the Old Testament. The first school in America was in Jamestown in 1607. Schools were church related or private, including universities. Yale, Harvard, Brown, and Dartmouth were all established by church groups. In the early 1800's four of every 1000 people were illiterate. Greek and Latin were taught in grammar school. Protestantism permeated the textbooks, which caused the Catholics to create their own
Dewey advocated gradual change in the schools to down grade academics and build curriculum around occupational activities, which would provide the maximum opportunity for socialization. Today, Thomas Jefferson's "wall' of separation" has been removed from its context. There are prayers held at the beginning of legislative and judicial sessions and every President has mentioned a divine power in his inaugural speech. Dewey was a signer of the Humanist Manifest #1, and believed that Christianity was the principle problem of society, a problem to be solved through public education. (Mel Gablers) In the early 20th century, John Dewey, a university professor trained teachers in "progressive education". The first amendment states that congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. "We have got to stuff our kids heads with truth and then we will give them something to think with. Vitale in 1962 decided that school prayer is unconstitutional. James Madison wrote the first amendment "religion clause," and an earlier draft made his intentions clear: The civil rights of none shall be abridged on account of religious belief or worship, nor shall any national religion be established.
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