The pedagogy of the Brothers clearly anticipated many of the features of what would evolve as modern pedagogy in the nineteenth century. The insistence on orderliness, the simultaneity and impersonality of instruction, the reliance on codes and signals to usher large numbers of pupils through a rigorously ordered daily program—all of this would appear laudable to the average reformer of the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century. But the schools of the Brothers were far from typical for the Old Regime.

— Schooling in Western Europe by Mary Jo Maynes (Page 31)