The Only Foundation For A Useful Education

 

the only foundation for a useful education in a republic is to be laid in Religion.
Without this there can be no virtue, and without virtue there can be
no liberty, and liberty is the object and life of all
republican governments.
 
---- Dr. Benjamin Rush, “Essays Literary, Moral, Philosophical” pg. 6, Printed by Thomas and Samuel F. Bradford, Philadelphia, 1798
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