ABSTRACT
This chapter exhibits the evils brought upon a country by an education controlled and administered by a dominant Church for the attainments of its own ends. The whole pedagogy of the eighteenth century is dominated by the idea of the necessary secularization of instruction. All believe and assert that public instruction is a civil affair. All wish to substitute lay teachers for religious teachers, and to open civil schools upon the ruins of monastic schools. The education of the Jesuits were still addicted to their old routine, and even their faults were aggravated with the times. Education, according to La Chalotais, is divided into two periods: the first from five to ten, the second from ten to seventeen. Rolland shared the prejudices of La Chalotais against the new Order founded by La Salle. La Chalotais, Rolland, Turgot, were real precursors of the French Revolution in the matter of education. La Chalotais attaches the greatest importance to the history.
