led to the issuance of another document in 1591, which was to be employed in all Jesuit schools for three years. The reflection on these experiments was then used by the committee in Rome to create the final official document of 1599. Content The Ratio Studiorum was divided into the following sections: I. Rules for the provincial superior; for the rector of the college; for the prefect of studies, who supervises classes and instruction, and the prefect of discipline, who maintains order and discipline; II. Rules for the professors of theology: Scripture, Hebrew language, dogmatic theology, ecclesiastical history, canon law, and moral theology. St. Thomas Aquinas was the main author for theological texts. III. Rules for the professors of philosophy, physics, and mathematics. Aristotle was prescribed as the standard author. IV. Rules for the teachers of the studia inferiora (the lower department): Latin and Greek, grammar and syntax, humanities and rhetoric. Other subjects were taught from the beginning under the name of "accessories"—especially history, geography, and antiquities. See also Manoel Alvarez References Further reading Ratio atque Institutio Studiorum Societatis Iesu. Volume 5 of the Monumenta Paedagogica Societatis Iesu, ed. Ladislaus Lukàcs. Volume 129 of the series Monumenta Historica Societatis Iesu, 357-454. Rome: Institutum Historicum Societatis Iesu, 1986. Abbott, Don Paul. “Rhetoric and Writing in the Renaissance.” A Short History of Writing Instruction. Ed. James J. Murphy. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2001. 145–72. Atteberry, John. “Humanities and Rhetoric.” Ratio Studiorum: Jesuit Education 1540–1773. Ed. John Atteberry and John Russell. Boston: John J. Burns Library, 1999. Baldwin, Charles Sears. Renaissance Literary Theory and Practice. New York: Columbia UP, 1939. Donohue, John W., S.J. Jesuit Education: An Essay on the Foundation of Its Idea. New York: Fordham University Press, 1963. Farrell, Allan Peter, S.J. The Jesuit Code of Liberal Education; Development and Scope of the Ratio Studiorum. Milwaukee: Bruce Publishing Company, 1938. Ganss, George, S.J. Saint Ignatius' Idea of a Jesuit University. Second Edition. Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 1956. Pavur, Claude, S.J. The Ratio Studiorum: The Official Plan for Jesuit Education. Saint Louis: The Institute of Jesuit Sources, 2005. Scaglione, Aldo. The Liberal Arts and the Jesuit College System. Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1986. Schwickerath, Robert, S.J. Jesuit Education: Its History and Principles Viewed in the Light of Modern Educational Problems. Saint Louis, Missouri: B. Herder, 1903. External links Catholic Encyclopedia article on the Ratio Studiorum "The Method of Teaching in Practice,"