“To educate a person in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.” Theodore Roosevelt

America’s First Federal Education Law 1780 read as follows: Religion, morality and knowledge, being necessary to good government and happiness of mankind, schools and means of education shall forever be encouraged.” Theodore Roosevelt recognized that without religion which is foundational to morality, that the three legged stool on which our nation was founded could no longer stand. This reality is certainly emphasized in multiple verses in the Bible but II Timothy 3:16 is one of my favorites! However, as we know today all religious instruction has been mandated out of public education and therefore much of the instruction in morals, so those of us who love the young must pick up the baton!