Who did Auguste Comte think should guide education and public morality in a positivist society?

In Auguste Comte’s vision of a positivist society, he proposed that a spiritual priesthood composed of secular sociologists should guide society and control both education and public morality.1

Comte believed that this structure would provide a necessary spiritual order to replace what he viewed as the outdated supernaturalism of Christian theology. Within this framework, he assigned specific roles to other groups as well: the actual administration of the government and the economy would be managed by businessmen and bankers, while the maintenance of private morality would be the responsibility of women in their roles as wives and mothers.1