Another V2 construct that was flawed - that 100% of governments funded Clergy for Education, essentially amounting to State-funding-Church, which was not the way it worked in nations without a State Religion (or that were Secular). I realize they're probably way past this for V3 and it won't be the same problem/flaw in the new game, but that always stuck out as a major flaw in V2, especially with USA funding Clergy when the USA did not fund religious institutions at all (they were only by donation/alms funded), as were many other nations that followed this pattern, along with the other extreme where churches/Clergy were outright banned (many forms of Communist nations).
Fully agreeI hope they give us option of either promoting “intellectuals”(public school teachers and secular academics or even writers or journalists maybe too) or clergy(layman if Protestant???).
The main difference intellectuals are one of most inclined to radical beliefs or liberal plus socialist ones especially if state targets or censors them a lot or during general unrest. Basically first group to radicalized is often them not peasants who really don’t start “questioning their place” unless struggling or “uprooted” by industrialization.
Clergy especially Catholics should be most conservative and sometimes borderline reactionary so both increase education by create a different “mindset” in pops taught by them.
The US did have a lot of private religious schools even among Protestants. The Catholics just had better organization and funding. Before 60s and 70s most Italians, Irish, and Catholic Americans went to private Catholic schools. Before “wasp” Protestants flooded them post de segregation. The Catholic Church actually got in trouble in US south for trying to have mix race schools and church was even weary of converting ex slaves outside of Louisiana(some natives Catholic African Americans there due to French legacy) because it would have increased anti Catholicism/anti papalist beliefs in US(“papalist conspiracy” being promoted/yapped about by some hardcore Protestants even when JFK ran).
The Catholic schools were also first to de segregate in US(they aren’t “right wing” like nationalist to be fair).
I know private schools were less big in Europe but they literally educated much of Catholic immigrants here who were formerly illiterate and could barely speak English. That’s why Catholics here are less anti clerical until literally newest pope(many Americans don’t like him even Catholics). They even taught them in their native language and English.
In US religion institutions and charities get tax cuts to point of not even having to pay really any taxes. The Catholic Church and Evangelical church would built hospitals because of this and schools along private ones.
I hope game lets you have private, religious, and public schools all at once. Was US only nation to do that????
