So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence; and in this respect ministers of religion follow gospel authority more closely than in some others. This must be reckoned as a serious defect in the ethics taught in Christian educational establishments.

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher

Education and the Social Order [Education and the Modern World], ch. 8 “Religion in Education” (1932)
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