WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Thu, 24 Sep 2026 23:45:21 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg nonsectarian – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Frankfurter, Felix -- McCollum v. Board of Education 333 U.S. 216–217 (1948) [concurring] https://wist.info/frankfurter-felix/85979/ https://wist.info/frankfurter-felix/85979/#respond Wed, 23 Sep 2026 16:42:41 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=85979 The nonsectarian or secular public school was the means of reconciling freedom in general with religious freedom. The sharp confinement of the public schools to secular education was a recognition of the need of a democratic society to educate its children, insofar as the State undertook to do so, in an atmosphere free from pressures in a realm in which pressures are most resisted and where conflicts are most easily and most bitterly engendered. Designed to serve as perhaps the most powerful agency for promoting cohesion among a heterogeneous democratic people, the public school must keep scrupulously free from entanglement in the strife of sects.


Felix Frankfurter (1882–1965) American jurist, teacher; US Supreme Court Justice (1939–62)
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