This function will be examined in three parts. First, will be seen the lay education given to children by some Christian Churches. Second, I will speak briefly of the social modeling realized by the Church on the behavior of its worshipers. Third, I will explain how the Church is the guardian of the social and the moral norms of the society.

a) In Haiti, the catholic Church has been, since the immediate post-colonial period, a masterpiece in the education of the new society that have been liberated from slavery. Now, other Christian Churches follow the same path: the lay education of their worshipers. The most well off secondary schools of the Haitian capital are directed by the catholic brothers or sisters. Those schools received the sons and daughters of the members of the Haitian elite. A pugnative will to maintain classroom discipline and the sentiment of responsibility are among the first qualities of those religious teachers. In those schools, the achievement rates are often high. Saint Louis de Gonzague, held by the catholic brothers of the Christian Instruction, is the secondary school that has the most successful candidates at the approved State examination (the Haitian BAC) given at the end of the official curriculum. An appreciable number of its laureates become excellent students in the overseas universities of the industrialized nations. The episcopal Church,is also holding some major schools in this country- the College Bird and Saint Jean rival with the best schools in Haiti. The Alpha Mission where has worked my friend and ex- teacher, Father Georges Mathelier, is a project of mass alphabetization devised to reduce significantly the illiteracy rate, in Haiti, which was 75%, twenty years ago. The Mission has not achieved his major goals. It represented, nevertheless, a good trial on the path of the development of Haiti. In New York, the West End Collegiate School and the Trinity School, respectively founded by the Dutch Reform (reformist) and the episcopal Churches, but now under lay management, are very appreciated schools. Holy Name School (now under catholic management), a primary school located nearby home, at W. 96th St., is a good Christian school whose students are doing now better than before and than many students in other schools. In Indiana, Notre Dame is a very important University which is known by its athletes throughout the U.S.A.. In Montreal, I have have been a student at the Brebeuf College (catholic) where I have met my best teachers in Biology and Chemistry.

b) The Church has also a behavior modeling role. Besides of the teaching of the lay arts and sciences, the Church is director of conscience, her principal educative role. She teaches the family values such as the filial devotion, the parental duty, the sentiment of responsibility and the conjugal (spouses') fidelity.
   Piety is this virtue that helps to meditate, to commune with oneself. It is introspective and is, with the temperance, the virtues mostly concerned with the self-control ('Ego control', in Psycho-Analysis). It is an attitude that can be learned mostly by being a loyal, devoted and responsible family member. The biblical story of Job relates an excellent example of fidelity and of piety.