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530 might be expected," writes Quick, "the Jesuits were to be very careful of the moral and religious training of their pupils. ... Sacchini writes in a very high tone on this subject. Perhaps he had read of Trotzendorf's address to a school." In 1879 an anti-clerical paper wrote about the Belgian higher schools: "Could not our teachers do a little more for discipline? Could they not watch more diligently over the manners and morals of the students? How often do we hear people say: 'What, I send my son to the Athenées?' God forbid! Fine manners he would learn there!' Now there is no reason why the young should acquire worse manners in the Athenées than in the Jesuit schools – on the contrary. However, in point of fact, only the Jesuits look after education, whereas our Athenées busy themselves only about instruction. I know full well that the education imparted by the clergy is bad, even dangerous. Our lay teachers should pay more attention to education, as it is exactly this training, however detestable, which brings to the men in the soutane the patronage of so many parents." M. Cottu, a bitter enemy of the Jesuits, had to acknowledge the same.