and since they had their students for seven years, they could move slowly, step by step, with plenty of active learning techniques: drills, carefully graded exercises, writing assignments of many kinds, and constant oral work (double translation, competitions, debates, declamations, and other verb...
carefully graded exercises, writing assignments of many kinds, and constant oral work (double translation, competitions, debates, declamations, and other verbal performances). […] Jesuit rhetorical education placed a great deal of emphasis on style, using Cicero as a touchstone (along with many ot...