Prophetic Statements First Presidency Message We believe that serious hazards are involved in entrusting to the schools the teaching of this vital and important subject to our children. This responsibility
Opposing Statements John Dewey I believe that the school is primarily a social institution. Education being a social process, the school is simply that form of community life in which
Prophetic Statements Joseph Smith For a moment reflect: what could have been the purpose of our Father in giving to us a law? Was it that it might be obeyed,
Commentary Prophetic Statements David O. McKay Schools and churches should radiate the fact that there are in life certain fundamentals that never change, which are essential to the happiness of
Commentary Who has been chiefly responsible for removing God from academia? How has education changed over the past century? When God is removed education weakens and eventually fails. Everything the
Prophetic Statements Brigham Young What is [education] for? The improvement of the mind; to instruct us in all arts and sciences, in the history of the world, in the laws
Prophetic Statements First Presedency We call upon parents to devote their best efforts to the teaching and rearing of their children in gospel principles which will keep them close to
Commentary Prophetic Statements David O. McKay I believe that discipline in the classroom, which implies self-control, and which connotes consideration for others, is the most important part of teaching .
Prophetic Statements Ezra Taft Benson Young mothers and fathers, with all my heart I counsel you not to postpone having your children, being co-creators with our Father in Heaven. Do
Commentary Light is withdrawn if counsel is rejected, but renewed obedience can return blessings. Gradual Secularization (early 1900s through the 1950s)—Having rejected the advice of the Prophets, the saints participated
Prophetic Statements Brigham Young JOD, 1:66 – Education #1: It is the duty of the Latter-day Saints, according to the revelations, to give their children the best education that can
Prophetic Statements John Taylor [Get] good teachers who are good Latter-day Saints. Shall we have them, or shall we employ teachers that will turn the infant minds of our children
Limitations of Religious Creeds — Willard Richards (October 15, 1843) I cannot beleive in any of the creeds of the diffent denominatin. because they all have some things in thm
The devout but iron-willed Father Flanagan (Spencer Tracy) leads a community called Boys Town, a different sort of juvenile detention facility where, instead of being treated as underage criminals, the
Power of Endowment Needed to Overcome All Things — Joseph Smith’s Journal (November 12, 1835) . . . you need an endowment brethren in order that you may be prepared
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