[BipolarBob]

Replace “students” with Catholic clergy.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Not exclusively clergy. As far back as 800 AD, Charlemagne required that every cathedral and monastery should host a cathedral-school or monastic-school open not only to clergy, but to qualified students. The Church provided centers of learning to the whole educated class, and this is what brought Europe out of the Dark Ages.

Yes, they taught specific religious subjects like Scripture, which was highly prioritized. They also prioritized the "Trivium and Quadrivium" of the classical education: the Trivium consists of Grammar, Logic and Rhetoric; these being preparatory for the Quadrivium: Arithmetic (numbers in the abstract), Geometry (numbers in space), Music (numbers in time) and Astronomy (numbers in space and time).

Those who reject their Catholic forebears are taking an axe to the roots of Western civilization. That may be OK with you, but it represents the spiritual and intellectual vacuity of the West. That vacuum is what is bringing on the Caliphate.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Not exclusively clergy. As far back as 800 AD, Charlemagne required that every cathedral and monastery should host a cathedral-school or monastic-school open not only to clergy, but to qualified students. The Church provided centers of learning to the whole educated class, and this is what brought Europe out of the Dark Ages.

Yes, they taught specific religious subjects like Scripture, which was highly prioritized. They also prioritized the "Trivium and Quadrivium" of the classical education: the Trivium consists of Grammar, Logic and Rhetoric; these being preparatory for the Quadrivium: Arithmetic (numbers in the abstract), Geometry (numbers in space), Music (numbers in time) and Astronomy (numbers in space and time).

Those who reject their Catholic forebears are taking an axe to the roots of Western civilization. That may be OK with you, but it represents the spiritual and intellectual vacuity of the West. That vacuum is what is bringing on the Caliphate.