The Gates Of Hell Shall Not Prevail

Let Our Pupil Be Taught That He Does Not Belong To Himself, But That He Is Public Property. Let Him Be Taught To Love His Family, But Let Him Be Taught At The Same Time That He Must Forsake And Even Forget Them When The Welfare Of His Country Requires It.

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.

The Bible, When Not Read In Schools, Is Seldom Read In Any Subsequent Period Of Life...the Bible...should Be Read In Our Schools In Preference To All Other Books Because It Contains The Greatest Portion Of That Kind Of Knowledge Which Is Calculated To Produce Private And Public Happiness.

Now If The Study Of The Scriptures Be Necessary To Our Happiness At Any Time In Our Life, The Sooner We Begin To Read Them, The More We Shall Be Attached To Them.

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.