XLV. The whole governance of public schools wherein the

youth of any Christian State is educated, episcopal seminaries only being in some degree excepted, may and should be given to
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the civil power ; and in such sense he given, that no right be recognized in any other authority of mixing itself up in the management of the schools, the direction of studies, the confer- ring of degrees, the choice or approbation of teachers.
XL VI. Nay, in the very ecclesiastical seminaries, the method of study to be adopted is subject to the civil authority.
XL VII. The best constitution of civil society requires that popular schools which are open to children of every class, and that public institutions generally which are devoted to teaching literature and science and providing for the education of youth, be exempted from all authority of the Church, from all her moderating influence and interference, and subjected to the absolute will of the civil and political authority [so as to be conducted] in accordance with the tenets of civil rulers, and the standard of the common opinions of the age.
XL VIII. That method of instructing youth can be approved by Catholic men which is disjoined from the Catholic faith and the Church's power, and which regards exclusively, or at least principally, knowledge of the natural order alone, and the ends of social life on earth.