Note 761 — Chapter XV · Training of the Jesuit Teacher.

Reg. Prov. 24.—By a very curious mistake some writers (as Professor Müller in Schmid’s Geschichte der Erziehung, vol. III, Abteilung I, page 41) represent these “permanent teachers” as a separate and inferior grade in the Society, “who received only a special drill in pedagogical courses and were not much esteemed.” And yet the Ratio Studiorum, in the rule just quoted, states explicitly that the members of the Society should be appointed as magistri perpetui after the completion of their theological course. Therefore the priests are meant.