Fisher Ames Quotes About School

• We have a dangerous trend beginning to take place in our education. We're starting to put more and more textbooks into our schools. We've become accustomed of late of putting little books into the hands of children, containing fables and moral lessons. We're spending less time in the classroom on the Bible, which should be the principal text in our schools. The Bible states these great moral lessons better than any other man-made book.

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  Fisher Ames

  Inspirational   Life   Bible  

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• Why then, if these new books for children must be retained, as they will be, should not the Bible regain the place it once held as a school book ?

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  Fisher Ames

  Christian   Religious   Children  

  Fisher Ames (1809). “Works of Fisher Ames”, p.134

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• [Why] should not the Bible regain the place it once held as a school book? Its morals are pure, its examples captivating and noble. The reverence for the Sacred Book that is thus early impressed lasts long; and probably if not impressed in infancy, never takes firm hold of the mind.

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  Fisher Ames

  Book   School   Long  

  Fisher Ames, John Thornton Kirkland (1854). “Works of Fisher Ames: With a selection from his speeches and correspondence”, p.406, Burt Franklin

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• We are not to consider ourselves, while here, as at church or school, to listen to the harangues of speculative piety; we are here to talk of the political interests committed to our charge.

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  Fisher Ames

  School   Political   Church  

  Fisher Ames (1871). “Speeches of Fisher Ames in Congress, 1789-1796”, p.12

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