ministered only the aristocratic education of the higher classes."[1] This is utterly false. That the Jesuits could not devote themselves extensively to elementary education has been accounted for in a previous chapter.[2] As to the other charge, in their higher schools there were always many poor pupils; it is frequently inculcated in the documents of the Society to treat the poor pupils with equal, if not with greater, care than the rich.[3] Father Jouvancy exhorts the teacher "to exhibit a parent's tender care particularly towards needy pupils."[4] Further, the Society had special boarding schools for poor scholars; domus pauperum, or convictus pauperum, were attached to nearly all larger colleges; in Germany and Austria at Würzburg, Dillingen, Augsburg, Munich, Prague, Olmütz, Brünn etc.[5] The Jesuits not unfrequently begged money for poor scholars. Peter Canisius in one year supported two hundred poor boys. Moreover, they had special libraries to supply books for poor students and fed poor day scholars. In several places the Jesuits were at times severely censured "for favoring too much poor students and the sons of the lower classes," as was said in Graz in 1767. In 1762 they were ordered by the Bavarian government to admit in future fewer poor scholars.[6] The judgment of Quick
- ↑ Compayré, History of Pedagogy, p. 143; similarly Seeley, History of Education, p. 185.
- ↑ Chapter III, pp. 104-106.
- ↑ Ratio Studiorum, Reg. Prof. Sup. Fac., n. 20; Reg. com. mag. class. inf. 50. – Monumenta Paedagogica, p. 814 foll.
- ↑ Ratio Docendi, ch. Ill, art. 1, n. 2.
- ↑ Duhr, Studienordnung, pp. 46-53.
- ↑ Documents in Duhr, Jesuitenfabeln, 2d edition, pp. 86-93.
