"The Jesuits maintain the abuse of the memory." – Ib., p. 140.
"The Jesuits wished the whole boy, not his memory only, to be affected by the master." – Quick, Educational Reformers, p. 507.
"What the Jesuits did in the matter of secondary instruction, with immense resources and for the pupils who paid them for their efforts, La Salle attempted ... for pupils who did not pay." – Compayré, l. c., p. 258.
"Their instruction was always given gratuitously." – Quick, ib., p. 38.
The Jesuit schools "were gratuitous. The instruction was imparted freely, not only to pupils of the Romish faith, but to all who chose to attend upon it." – Porter, l. c., p. 29.
"Finally they imparted their instruction gratuitously." – Ranke, History of the Popes, vol. I.
"They sought to reach sons of princes, noblemen and others who constituted the influential classes." – Seeley, History of Education, p. 185.
"They administer only the aristocratic education of the ruling classes, whom they hope to retain under their own control." – Compayré, History of Pedagogy, p. 143.
"Faithful to the traditions of the Catholic Church, the Society did not estimate a man's worth simply according to his birth and outward circumstances. The constitutions expressly laid down that poverty and mean extraction were never to be any hindrance to a pupil's admission .... and Sacchini says: 'Do not let any favoring of nobility interfere with the care of meaner pupils, since the birth of all is equal in Adam, and the inheritance is Christ.'" – Quick, l. c., p. 39.
