Noah Webster's Distinctly Christian Education System Shielded the Republic From the Enlightenment

Noah Webster invested his entire life into the taskthat may jeopardize this Christian Constitutional
of placing every aspect of life under the authoritygovernment.
of Jesus Christ. In his personal and family life heThe early life of Noah Webster was dedicated to
ordered every activity by the principles of thebuilding an educational system that would impart,
Word of God. Having graduated from Yale at"a love of virtue, patriotism, and religion", based
about the same time as the birth of America, heon scripture. These were the three characteristics
was burdened with the need to maintain Americathat he deemed as necessary to maintaining the
as a Christian Constitutional republic. He believedAmerican Christian republic. He, like most
that in order to maintain liberty all ties with the oldAmericans of his time time "affirmed that the
world must be severed. It would require aprinciples of republican government have their
distinctly Christian education system to avoidorigins in the Scriptures.
propagation of foreign philosophies of government