PUBLIC SCHOOL, A PHILOSOPHY OF THE TIMES.

If they only believed that fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom and knowledge. Many who graduate from public schools and universities are functionally illiterate, maybe able to read and write at a grade four or five level. When I was in grade school, we recited the Lord's Prayer every Monday morning at assembly. Our studies were intensely focused on literature, reading & writing, mathematics, history and science. I've heard it said by credible educators that the current generation, even with college degrees, cannot match match us for intelligence and knowledge.

"Above all, the most important and most usual teaching, in both the universities and the lower schools, ought to be concerned with the Holy Scriptures . . . Oh! how unwisely we deal with our poor young folk, whom we are commanded to train and instruct [Prov. 22:6]! But we shall have to give a serious account of our stewardship, and explain why we have not set the Word of God before them . . . We fail to notice the present pitiful distress of the young people. Though they live in the midst of a Christian world, they faint and perish in misery because they lack the gospel in which we should be training and exercising them all the time." ................................................ "But I would not advise anyone to send his son to a place where the Holy Scriptures do not come first. Every institution, where the Word of God is not taught regularly, must fail. That is why we observe the kind of people who are now and will continue to be in the universities . . . I greatly fear that the universities are but wide-open gates leading to hell, as they are not diligent in training and impressing the Holy Scripture on the young students."....................................Martin Luther, “An Appeal to the Ruling Class of German Nationality as to the Amelioration of the State of Christendom,” in Martin Luther: Selections from His Writings, ed. John Dillenberger (New York: Anchor, 1962), pp. 470, 471, 475, 476 . . . . almost 500 years ago . . the sentiment holds true today . . although Bible teaching schools are rare . . let alone 1611KJV schools.