Note 81 — Chapter II · Education before the Foundation of the Society of Jesus.

Hefele, The Life of Cardinal Ximenez, translated by the Rev. Canon Dalton, p. 115.—Rashdall remarks on this fact: “Salamanca is not perhaps precisely the place where one would look for early precedents for the higher education of women. Yet it was from Salamanca that Isabella, the Catholic, is said to have summoned Doña Beatriz Galindo to teach her Latin long before the Protestant Elizabeth put herself to school under Ascham.” Univ. in the M. A., vol. II, p. 79. The education of women was not so entirely neglected as is commonly believed. See Specht, l. c., ch. XI, “Education of Women.” Further Janssen’s History of the German People, vol. I, pp. 82–85.