Pierce was wrong?

[Paul Salamanca]

Should we really insist on universal secular education in a deeply Islamic
country where our courts have specifically ruled that such a requirement
violates our own Constitution?

                                                         Paul Salamanca
                                                         Univ. of Kentucky

Louise Weinberg wrote:

>         From the US Constitution I would also force on them a most
> un-Islamic separation of church and state.  To this I would add a
> fundamental national constitutional feature, that education is
> compulsory, and that all children are to be educated through the age of
> 16 by the local governments with a thoroughly secular national
> curriculum, integrated notwithstanding sex, religion, race, or
> caste.  Children educated privately or in religious schools would have to
> pass secular learning tests.  (The public schoolhouses, teachers, and
> females-truant officers would at first have to be provided by a Marshall
> Plan and a Peace Corps and the U.N.)