Editing Jesuits (section)

===Educational institutions===
{{See also|List of Jesuit educational institutions}}
Although the work of the Jesuits today embraces a wide variety of apostolates, ministries, and civil occupations, they are probably most well known for their educational work, on all continents. Since the inception of the order, Jesuits have been teachers. Besides serving on the faculty of Catholic and secular schools, the Jesuits are the Catholic religious order with the [[List of Jesuit educational institutions|second highest number of schools]] which they run: 168 [[tertiary education|tertiary institutions]] in 40 countries and 324 secondary schools in 55 countries. The [[Brothers of the Christian Schools]] have over 560 [[Lasallian educational institutions]]. They also run elementary schools, at which they are less likely to teach. Many of the schools are [[List of schools named after Francis Xavier|named after Francis Xavier]] and other prominent Jesuits.

After the [[Second Vatican Council]], Jesuit schools had become a very controversial place of instruction as they abandoned teaching traditional Catholic education with things such as the mastery of [[Latin]] and the [[Baltimore Catechism]]. Jesuit schools replaced classic theological instruction from people like [[Thomas Aquinas]] and [[Bonaventure]] to people like [[Karl Rahner]] and [[Pierre Teilhard de Chardin]], which was a very controversial move at the time.<ref>{{Cite web |title=How Vatican II Helped the Jesuits Do Their Job |url=http://www.conversationsmagazine.org/student-stories-1/how-vatican-ii-helped-the-jesuits |access-date=7 February 2021 |website=Conversations |language=en-US |archive-date=14 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210214041303/http://www.conversationsmagazine.org/student-stories-1/how-vatican-ii-helped-the-jesuits |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Howell |first=Patrick |date=1 September 2012 |title=The 'New' Jesuits: The Response to the Society of Jesus to Vatican II, 1962–2012: Some Alacrity, Some Resistance |url=https://epublications.marquette.edu/conversations/vol42/iss1/4 |journal=Conversations on Jesuit Higher Education |volume=42 |issue=1 |access-date=7 February 2021 |archive-date=16 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210216184301/https://epublications.marquette.edu/conversations/vol42/iss1/4/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

Jesuit educational institutions aim to promote the values of [[Eloquentia Perfecta]]. This is a Jesuit tradition that focuses on cultivating a person as a whole, as one learns to speak and write for the common good.