The foremost reading for everybody should be Holy Scripture

Above all, the foremost reading for everybody, both in the universities and in the schools, should be Holy Scripture.  . . .  I would advise no one to send his child where the Holy Scriptures are not supreme.

Martin Luther, “To the Christian Nobility . . .”, Luther, Works, 44:205-07, quoted in Ryken, Worldly Saints, p. 162.