Religion has been an important concept of every culture. Throughout history, religion has been connected in school studies. In the 20th century the United States that most of the religious teaching and ritual been taken out of public schools. In Religion: Rethinking a National Dilemma and American Education, by Warren A. Nord, Warren questions how student can graduate without hardly any religious teaching involved. Warren A. Nord is a philosopher of religion at the University of North Carolina and the director of that university's Program in the Humanities and Human Values. Also, Mr. Nord's novel investigates historical, philosophical, constitutional, and pedagogical issues relating to religion and education.
             In the beginning, Mr. Nord speaks about religion and science. He lectors on how the world is made up of liberal and conservative religion, secular modernity, and postmodernism. Basically Mr. Nord intertwines all for concepts together and tells the reader how they make up people's belief and knowledge. For instance, science is fact but people who are scientist do not just believe only in scientific facts they can be more religious then nonscientists. Another example is how Mr. Nord explains postmodernism. He explains it as something that mix or intermingle with each other and that are not really separated such as art and literature. Mr. Nord then goes on to lecturing about colonial American schools. Most important point Mr. Nord wants to make the reader understand in the second section is that schools and culture throughout the century has to relate greatly with religion and god in some way. For instance, in colonial America the first few school were private schools that really majority teaches Christianity. America early heroes such as George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and Abraham Lincoln had to do with America prosperity today, but their writing that children in school today study contains important biblical re...