Originally Posted by: earthman buckThat's just plain not true.

It is true... I'm not talking about Universities and such... but schools for children.. The church brought schooling to the poor. Only the very very wealthy could afford to have their children taught.

They began in the church... You look back to the origins of the early schooling and they were in church to teach children to read the bible. It wasn't until many years later that the governments thought it was a good idea and funded the teaching and brought the classes out of the church.

That's why Christianity was so prominent in schooling even as soon as 50 years ago.