“The Jesuits were good educators, exceptional teachers.”

— Pierre Trudeau

Part 1, 1919 - 1968 The Road to 24 Sussex Drive, p. 21
Memoirs (1993)
Context: The Jesuits were good educators, exceptional teachers. In an era and in a society where freedom of speech was not held in high regard, of course, that the discourse be focused on what they were teaching, but we were able to go beyond this framework without incurring too great a risk.

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