Duty of the State to Meet Every Educational Want of Its Citizens

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Beacon Press, T. Todd, printer, 1891 - Church and education - 52 pages
 

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Page 12 - A portion of the Bible shall be read daily in the public schools, without written note or oral comment; but a pupil whose parent or guardian informs the teacher in writing that he has conscientious scruples against it, shall not be required to read from any particular version, or to take any personal part in. the reading. The school committee shall not purchase or use school books in the public schools calculated to favor the tenets of any particular religious sect.
Page 9 - God according to the dictates of his own conscience, or to compel any person to attend, erect or support any place of religious worship, or to pay tithes, taxes or other rates for the support of any minister of the gospel or teacher of religion.
Page 14 - No religious test as a qualification for office shall be required ; and no preference shall be given by law to any religious sect or mode of worship; but the free enjoyment of all religious sentiments and the different modes of worship shall be held sacred. The rights hereby secured shall not be construed to justify acts of licentiousness injurious to morals or dangerous to the peace and safety of the state, or to exclude the Holy Bible from use in any public school of this state.
Page 11 - The board of regents shall have the general supervision of the university, and the direction and control of all expenditures from the university interest fund.
Page 11 - ... no instruction either sectarian in religion or partisan in politics shall ever be allowed in any department of the university, and no sectarian or partisan test shall ever be allowed or exercised in the appointment of regents or in the election of professors, teachers, or other officers of the university, or in the admission of students thereto, or for any purpose whatever.
Page 13 - The Bible shall not be excluded from any school or institution in this state, nor shall any pupil be required to read it contrary to the wishes of his parent or guardian.
Page 14 - Resolved — That religious instruction, and the reading of religious books, including the Holy Bible, are prohibited in the common schools of Cincinnati, it being the true object and intention of this rule to allow the children of the parents of all sects and opinions in matters of faith and worship to enjoy alike the benefit of the Common School Fund.
Page 10 - No money shall be appropriated or drawn from the treasury for the benefit of any religious sect or society, theological or religious seminary; nor shall property belonging to the state be appropriated for any such purpose.
Page 15 - The legislature having placed the management of the public schools under the exclusive control of directors, trustees, and boards of education, the courts have no rightful authority to interfere by directing what instruction shall be given or what books shall be read...
Page 13 - No sectarian or religious doctrine shall be taught or inculcated in any of the public schools of this State; but nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit the reading of the Holy Scriptures.

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