The current education system is focused primarily on allowing children from all different backgounds to obtain an education that allows them to continue on to the next stage of learning, ultimately college. This differs in the method of education that Cotton Mather discussed, in which religion is applied to children's education in every aspect, and where religion is often the only practice that they know of. The main reason that the Mather method can no longer be applied is because there are no longer single colonies with the same religions throughout--in schools, people with many different religious beleifs are combined in the same classroom, so it is impossible to drill a certain religious aspect into the student's heads without being unfair to one of the beleifs. however, even if it were possible, it seems as if the main goal of modern education is to prepare students for college and beyond, not to promote a certain religion or earn a place in heaven.