Looking at teacher colleges and 'normal' schools, I see that training children and young people in the 'norms' of belief, creeds, habits and such started way before Europeans came to these shores. At one time, it was more common to assume that employees would be men and a large group of men were the priests of the Church. I don't want to be sexist but I am confident (don't tell anybody!!) that women are indeed quicker and more sensitive to non-verbal emotions affecting small children than that other sex. But the beginnings of planned education of instructors in the West seems to have been aimed at men. Later, in the US, we moved to more women teaching, say, 3rd grade and earlier.
