Estará o pensamento pedagógico em França, no final do século XVIII e no início do século XIX, na origem da secularização da educação?

From 1879 to 1886, the French public education system was governed by a series of school laws known as the “Ferry Laws”. These laws, which were part of a continuous effort to affirm the role of the state and reaffirm certain ideals of the French Revolution, gave an identity to public education, which was then characterized by the exclusion of religion and the secularization of the educational world. The origins of this identity are to be found in the Enlightenment thinking conveyed by both the Encyclopédie and the educational treatises of the 18th-19th centuries. To demonstrate this, we will begin by analyzing how the need to create a national education system arose and how we went from a system under the influence of the Church to a public education system imposed under the banner of secularism. We will then show how the public school system found it difficult to free itself from its religious heritage and how it was forced to invent a civic morality that competed with Christian morality.