Cotton Mathers vs Modern Education

The modern American education system seems to have its similarities in principal with the Puritan’s. They correspondingly strive to bring up adolescence to become good, hard working, productive members of society. However there is one thing the modern system lacks from the Puritan’s, that of religious beliefs and ethics. Religion in today’s schools are no where near as based around religion and morals, in fact, it has been prohibited all together in most schools in America. The closest you can come to the Puritans education system is going to a private, religious school, where even there religion isn’t nearly as focused on as in the Puritan schools. Although schools allocate punishment for code infractions, they are not necessarily to build ethics and morals to become a deeply truly better person, but to keep the school from plunging into anarchy. America has become far to entwined with countless beliefs, religions, and perspectives to teach one without causing commotion. It would be going against the rights of an American to go to a public facility, and be forced to learn beliefs other than your own. Today education is based much more on rationality, therefore advocating a more educated, well-rounded future adult