The Battle for Civilization

If the battle of civilization is lost in the schools, who is going to win it afterwards? If the whole community is set wrong in its education, what chances have the clergy of being able to set it right from the pulpit? To begin by starting the community on the wrong road, in the plastic period, and then, when it is grown up, to send out the parson and the policeman to bring it back—what fool’s enterprise could compare with that? —L. P. Jacks

[Editor’s note: The thesis here is accurate, although we do not agree with the denominational language.]