The Catholic Church played a significant role in improving education in cities by opening religious schools. These schools offered education to children who might not have otherwise had access to it, helping to increase literacy rates and educational opportunities in urban areas.
Catholic immigrant groups
catholic immigrant groups
Catholic immigrant groups
At education-portal.com/religion_degrees.html there are lists of all religious schools and degrees for careers in religious leadership, teaching and counseling.
There are regular public schools, religious (modern-Orthodox) public schools, there are schools which give a Torah-education, and there are private schools (whose orientation depends on who runs them).
Religious education is "instruction religieuse" or "cathéchisme" (for Catholics). It is not a school subject (except in some private religious schools) but is taught by volunteers outside schools.
French children do not learn Religious Education (RE) in the same way as in some other countries. The French education system promotes secularism and does not include formal religious education in public schools. However, private schools, including Catholic schools, may offer religious instruction.
Opened public elementary schools~apex
Specifically, formal, organized education (schools) began as extensions of the Church, and focused on religious education.
Study of comparative religion.
Steven L. Jones has written: 'Religious schooling in America' -- subject(s): Church schools, Private schools, Religious education
The principles of secularism (a view that public education and other matters of civil policy should be conducted without the introduction of a religious element) are written in the French fundamental law. For religious schools (which are all private), it is not allowed to make religious education compulsory.