"For the Jesuits, education is reduced to a superficial culture of the brilliant faculties of the intelligence." – Compayré, l. c., p. 139.
"Thoroughness in work was the one thing insisted on." – Quick, l. c., p. 46.
"With such standards of scholarship the methods of instruction will naturally be rigorous and thorough." – Cf. Porter, l. c., p. 55.
"To write in Latin is the ideal which they propose to their pupils.... the first consequence of this is the proscription of the mother tongue." – Compayré, H. of P., p. 144.
"The Jesuits were hostile to the mother tongue, and distrusting the influence of its association they studiously endeavored to supplant it." – Painter, A Hist. of Ed., p. 120.
"Instruction in the vernacular language was incorporated with the course of instruction in 1703, and in 1756 the colleges in Germany were advised to devote as much attention to German as to Latin and Greek." – Kiddle and Schem, The Cyclopedia of Education, p. 493.
"Preoccupied before all else with purely formal studies, the Jesuits leave real and concrete studies in entire neglect. History is almost wholly banished from their programme." – Compayré, l. c., p. 144.
"The sciences and philosophy are involved in the same disdain as history." – Ib., p. 145.
"In mathematics and the natural sciences, he [the Jesuit pupil] will be the master of what he professes to know. ... In logic and grammar, in geography and history he will be drilled to such a control of what he learns, that it shall be a possession for life." – Porter, l. c., p. 55.