Jesuit education

Jesuit education, by Robert Schwickerath, S. J., carries the line “Its History and Principles Viewed in the Light of Modern Educational Problems.” A chapter on Jesuit colleges says that within fifty years from the solemn approbation of the Society of Jesus the Order had spread all over the world, from Europe to the Indies, from China and Japan in the East, to Mexico and Brazil in the West.

A quotation dated Aug. 5, 1775 expresses a tenderness for the good Jesuit Fathers, not as far as they are monks but as educators and scholars, whose services are useful to civil society. The text names Catharine II., Empress of Russia, as the second ruler of Europe who endeavored to protect the Society, and says that in 1783 she wrote to Pope Pius VI. that she was resolved to maintain these priests for the welfare of her states. A section on class work says it seems very important that the pupils be directed to be careful to give their memory lessons according to the sense and feeling, and that in reciting poetry attention is to be paid to the quantities and, above all, to the caesuras.