He was the founder of the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools, also known as the De La Salle Christian Brothers, the De La Salle Brothers, or the Christian Brothers (which is understandably confused with the different order of the same name founded by Bl Edmund Ignatius Rice). He is regarded as the father of modern pedagogy.
Currently, about 6,000 Brothers and 65,000 lay and religious colleagues worldwide serve as teachers, counsellors and guides to 800,000 students in over 1,000 educational institutions in 87 countries, carrying out the work of the founder into the 21st century.
JohnBaptist was the eldest child of Louis delaSalle and Nicolle de Moet de Brouillet.
DelaSalle is entitled to be ranked among the advanced educators of the eighteenth century and among the greatest thinkers and educational reformers of all
SaintJohnBaptistdelaSalle in founding the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools.
JohnBaptist was the eldest child of Louis delaSalle and Nicolle de Moet de Brouillet.
DelaSalle was too prudent and too well inspired by God, not to give his institute a positive character in its twofold object: the Christian education of youth and the cultivation of that spirit of faith, piety, mortification, and obedience which should characterize its members.
DelaSalle is entitled to be ranked among the advanced educators of the eighteenth century and among the greatest thinkers and educational reformers of all time.
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