Protestantism in Poland and Bohemia - James Aitken Wylie

described by Broscius, a zealous Roman Catholic
clergyman, professor in the University of Cracow,
and one of the most learned men of his time, in a
work published originally in Polish, in the
beginning of the seventeenth century. He says:
"The Jesuits teach children the grammar of
Alvar,[4] which it is very difficult to understand
and to learn; and much time is spent at it. This they
do for many reasons: first, that by keeping the child
a long time in the school they may receive in gifts
from the parents of the children, whom they
pretend gratuitously to educate, much more than
they would have got had there been a regular
payment; second, that by keeping the children a
long while in the school they may become well
acquainted with their minds; third, that they may
train the boy for their own plans, and for their own
purposes; fourth, that in case the friends of the boy
wish to have him from them, they may have a
pretense for keeping him, saying, give him time at
least to learn grammar, which is the foundation of
every other knowledge; fifth, they want to keep
boys at school till the age of manhood, that they
may engage for their order those who show most
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