Диего де Ланда
Another means of conversion was the education of the Mayan youth. Through the aforementioned conversion programme, "sons of the nobles were taken into monastery schools and there taught until they were judged sufficiently secure in the faith to be returned to their villages as Christian schoolmasters, where they were to lead their fellow villagers through simple routines of worship." According to Fray Diego de Landa in his book "Relación de las cosas de Yucatán", this program was quite successful, and an “admirable thing to see."