the vocational school and the ‘protectory’ soon became models for many similar institutions in France and elsewhere. [Sidenote: Religious aim.] [Sidenote: Besides rudiments and religion, more practical subjects.] [Sidenote: ‘Simultaneous’ method.] [Sidenote: Training of teachers.] =The Aim, Curriculum, and Method of the Christian Brothers’ Schools.=--The plan of the schools of the Christian Brothers was eventually worked out and crystallized in a fixed system under the title of _Conduct of Schools_. This code has not remained quite as definite and uniform as the _Ratio Studiorum_ of the Jesuits, for changes and revisions are permitted, and modern methods and subjects have from time to time been introduced. Considerable latitude, moreover, has been allowed to the individual houses by the Superior General at the head of the order, and by the Brothers Visitors, who have charge of the districts. The educational aim of the Christian Brothers has been preëminently religious, and the chief means of attaining this have been strict vigilance, good example, and catechetical instruction. The course has included the studies of the best schools of the time, and added other more practical subjects. Besides the rudiments--reading, writing, and arithmetic--and religious instruction and good manners, mathematics, history, botany, geography, drawing, architecture, hydrography, navigation, and other technical subjects have often been taught, and in the industrial schools a manual and vocational training has been furnished. La Salle seems to have made a great advance, too, in educational economy by perfecting and applying the ‘simultaneous’ method, which had been practiced in a crude form by some of his forerunners. By this method is meant grading the children according to their capacity, and having those in each grade use the same book and follow the same lesson under a single master, instead of instructing each pupil individually, as was generally the custom then. Likewise, the seminaries or training schools of the Christian Brothers contributed much to the advancement of efficiency in teaching. For the first time teachers of ability and training were made possible for the elementary schools. [Sidenote: Spread] [Sidenote: and expansion of the work.]