id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt _005197773 Larkin, Michael J. Do we need religious education? : Catholic schools 1927 .txt text/plain 9732 444 69 Let it be noted, however, that while the educational forces of the State do not nor cannot achieve the Church's ultimate aim in the training of youth-the Church can and does achieve the State's highest aim in education, through her system of religious schools. The very first schools in America were religious schools and they re- mained religious schools until the present system was brought into vogue about 1840 by Horace Mann. cache/_005197773.txt txt/_005197773.txt