Wallbuilders Live! With David Barton & Rick Green

What if everything you thought you knew about religion in American education was wrong? Dive into the eye-opening reality of how deeply the Bible was woven into the fabric of public education throughout most of American history.Our journey through forgotten educational practices reveals that in 1816 New Jersey, first and second-grade students in public schools didn't just learn about the Bible—they memorized entire books of scripture. One particularly diligent student had committed to memory the Gospel of John, 30 Psalms, and Psalm 119. This wasn't happening in private religious schools, but in taxpayer-funded public education.The evidence continues with Noah Webster's original 1828 dictionary, where 27% of word definitions included Bible verse references. Presidents from Zachary Taylor to Ulysses S. Grant publicly declared the Bible "the best school book in the world" and encouraged American youth to "hold fast to the Bible as the sheet anchor of your liberties." As late as