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In addition to purely academic teaching, education forms a part in developing a moral and political worldview.  In many countries formal religious instruction is part of public education, while  the [[United States]], which holds to [[separation of church and state]], no longer formally engages in such. However, it is argued by [[conservatives]] that the modern degree of exclusion of religious belief from the State was not the historical norm.<ref>[http://www.shalomjerusalem.com/heritage/heritage19.html  Honorable Judge Robert Ulrich Chief Justice, Missouri Court Of Appeals, Western District, ''Were the Founding Fathers Christian?'']</ref><ref>http://www.naacd.com/issues_judicial.htm</ref> One example invoked in support of this contention is that an estimated 75 percent of the school systems in the South had religious services and Bible readings as late as 1962, when in ''[[Engel versus  Vitale]]'', the U.S. [[Supreme Court]] decided that school-sponsored prayer was unconstitutional.<ref>Colliers 1961 Yearbook p. 224</ref>  It is also argued that it is impossible to completely separate an educational system from moral beliefs,<ref>[http://peacebyjesus.witnesstoday.org/CauseEffect.html Cause and Effect: The Bible, the Educational System, and It's Influence]</ref> and that the modern divorcement of religion from education constitutes an official "establishment of a religion of secularism" - a term used by U.S. [[Supreme Court]] justice Potter Stewart in dissenting from the decision rendered on June 17, 1963 in ''[[Abington School versus Schempp]]'', which outlawed State-sponsored Bible reading in public schools.<ref>http://www.naacd.com/issues_judicial.htm</ref> <ref> Stephen V. Monsma, J. Christopher Soper, ''The Challenge of Pluralism: Church and State in Five Democracies'', p. 27</ref>

In addition to purely academic teaching, education forms a part in developing a moral and political worldview.  In many countries formal religious instruction is part of public education, while  the [[United States]], which holds to [[separation of church and state]], no longer formally engages in such. However, it is argued by [[conservatives]] that the modern degree of exclusion of religious belief from the State was not the historical norm.<ref>[http://www.shalomjerusalem.com/heritage/heritage19.html  Honorable Judge Robert Ulrich Chief Justice, Missouri Court Of Appeals, Western District, ''Were the Founding Fathers Christian?'']</ref><ref>http://www.naacd.com/issues_judicial.htm</ref> One example invoked in support of this contention is that an estimated 75 percent of the school systems in the South had religious services and Bible readings as late as 1962, when in ''[[Engel versus  Vitale]]'', the U.S. [[Supreme Court]] decided that school-sponsored prayer was unconstitutional.<ref>Colliers 1961 Yearbook p. 224</ref>  It is also argued that it is impossible to completely separate an educational system from moral beliefs,<ref>[http://peacebyjesus.witnesstoday.org/CauseEffect.html Cause and Effect: The Bible, the Educational System, and It's Influence]</ref> and that the modern divorcement of religion from education constitutes an official "establishment of a religion of secularism" - a term used by U.S. [[Supreme Court]] justice Potter Stewart in dissenting from the decision rendered on June 17, 1963 in ''[[Abington School versus Schempp]]'', which outlawed State-sponsored Bible reading in public schools.<ref>http://www.naacd.com/issues_judicial.htm</ref> <ref> Stephen V. Monsma, J. Christopher Soper, ''The Challenge of Pluralism: Church and State in Five Democracies'', p. 27</ref>

Education in America, especially as its higher level, is typically seen by conservatives as promoting liberalism and helping to promoting moral degeneration. A (disputed) study showed that 50% of American college faculty identified themselves as Democrats and only 11% as Republicans (with 33% being Independent, and 5% identifying themselves with another party). 72% described themselves as "to the left of center," including 18% who were strongly left. Only 15% described themselves as right of center, including only 3% who were "strongly right."<ref>North American Academic Study Survey (NAASS) of students, faculty and administrators at colleges and universities in the United States and Canada 1999. The Berkeley Electronic Press</ref><ref>http://www.bepress.com/forum/vol3/iss1/art2</ref> <ref>http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/17963/liberal_bias_in_our_schools.html</ref>

Education in America, especially as its higher level, is typically seen by conservatives as promoting liberalism and helping to promoting [[moral degeneration]]. A (disputed) study showed that 50% of American college faculty identified themselves as Democrats and only 11% as Republicans (with 33% being Independent, and 5% identifying themselves with another party). 72% described themselves as "to the left of center," including 18% who were strongly left. Only 15% described themselves as right of center, including only 3% who were "strongly right."<ref>North American Academic Study Survey (NAASS) of students, faculty and administrators at colleges and universities in the United States and Canada 1999. The Berkeley Electronic Press</ref><ref>http://www.bepress.com/forum/vol3/iss1/art2</ref> <ref>http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/17963/liberal_bias_in_our_schools.html</ref>

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