Jesuit education includes formation in values, in attitudes, and in an ability to evaluate criteria; that is, it includes formation of the will. Since knowledge of good and evil, and of the hierarchy of relative goods, is necessary both for the recognition of the different influences that effect freedom and for the exercise of freedom, education takes place in a moral context: Knowledge is joined to virtue.

Personal development through the training of character and will, overcoming selfishness and lack of concern for others and the other effects of sinfulness, and developing the freedom that respects others and accepts responsibility, is all aided by the necessary and fair regulations of the school; these include a fair system of discipline. Of equal importance is the self- discipline expected of each student, manifested in intellectual rigor, persevering application to serious study, and conduct toward others that recognizes the human dignity of each individual.

In a Jesuit school, a framework of inquiry in which a value system is acquired through a process of wrestling with competing points of view is legitimate.

 
Reference:
Acta Romana Societatia Iesu
Vol. XIX, Fasc. III, 1986, page 783-784
Rome, 1987