“Only a small minority of Protestant youth are receiving elementary and secondary education with a genuinely Christian integration. The vast majority are in public schools, where a consistent Christian world view cannot be imparted, however good the emphasis upon conduct and character may be. To be sure, in some cases a strongly Christian home and a church with a vital educational program may supply the lack; yet the tide of secularism in American has risen so high that it is difficult to give children in their impressionable years a thorough-going Christian view of life” (Frank E. Gaebelein, The Pattern of God’s Truth: Problems of Integration in Christian Education, 111).

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That originally published in 1954. It is as applicable today (if not more so) as it was then.