When The New England Primer yielded its place as the most widely used textbook, it was succeeded by the notable McGuffey’s Readers, which were likewise saturated with direct instruction in Scripture and moral principles drawn from the Bible. For the first four-fifths of our American history the Bible not only was widely read in our schools, but its teachings also dominated the content of our most extensively used lower grade textbooks. Further, many of America’s great universities were founded by Christians. For example: Flarvard was founded in 1636 by John Harvard, a young Puritan clergyman. Yale was founded in 1701 by ten Connecticut clergymen. Princeton was founded in 1746 by the Presbyterian Church. But something happened: About 1850 an organized movement * to secularize American education first became noticeable. This secular trend developed along two lines: First, the use and influence of the Bible in the schoolroom and in textbooks were gradually reduced. A comparatively recent survey of the "readers” used for textbooks in Massachusetts schools revealed that in 1800 spiritual and moral lessons accounted for 99 per cent of the content. By 1875 the spiritual and moral content of the read- . ers had been reduced to 50 per cent. By 1946, less than one per cent of the material in the readers used in the public schools of Massachu setts had any moral or spiritual significance. These figures are typical of the trend in the content of American textbooks. As a conse quence, pupils began to study the universe and the world we live in with no reference to the Creator; they studied the history of prime ministers and potentates with no mention of the King of kings. The second line of development to propagate secularized edu cation was through the teacher training schools. Here young teach ers were trained in the philosophy that no spiritual values were to be mentioned in the classrooms. As the atheistic philosophy of the new Paganism came to dominate the thinking of professors of edu cation, Biblical faith was sneered at as superstition, and human in tellect under the control of science was enthroned. The secularizing of American education was tremendously ac celerated during the 1930’s, when many of our leading educators visited Communist Russia. Among these were John Dewey, William Kilpatrick, George Counts, Harold Rugg and Boyd Bode. There these educators saw a society based on three principles: 1. 3. Man is completely the product of his environment. By con trolling the surroundings it is possible to create a new man. Economic determinism, as this is called, denies spiritual forces and denies ► the necessity of supernatural intervention to make man a "new creation.” (continued on page 8) MAY. IM S supreme. In other words, "There is no God.” i 2. Man is an animal, the product of evolutionary forces. Since there is no God, obviously man is not a special creation.
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