St John-Baptiste de La Salle (/ l ə ˈ s æ l /) (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ batist də la sal]; 1651 – 7 April 1719) was a French priest, educational reformer, and founder of the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools.

College De La Salle Frères is a private Catholic school in Amman, Jordan. The school was established in 1950 [1] and is sponsored by the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools, also known as the De La Salle Brothers. It is part of a network of such schools operating in 80 countries around the world.

John Baptist de la Salle, Saint, founder of the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools, educational reformer, and father of modern pedagogy, was born at Reims, April 30, 1651, and died at Saint-Yon, Rouen, on Good Friday, April 7, 1719. The family of de la Salle traces its origin to Johan Salla, who, in the early part of the ninth ...

John Baptist is responsible for many changes in education, things that we take for granted today. But education was not his first choice for a career.

John Baptist de La Salle was a pioneer in founding training colleges for teachers, reform schools for delinquents, technical schools, and secondary schools for modern languages, arts, and sciences. His work quickly spread through France and, after his …

This 46-minute cartoon is about the life of St. John Baptist de La Salle, his founding of the Christian Schools and the Brothers of the Christian Schools. Parts of it are in the form of a musical, with songs sung by the characters of the story.

The De La Salle Brothers, officially named the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools (Latin: Fratres Scholarum Christianarum; French: Frères des Écoles Chrétiennes; Italian: Fratelli delle Scuole Cristiane) abbreviated FSC, is a Catholic lay religious congregation of pontifical right for men founded in France by Jean-Baptiste de ...

St. John Baptist de La Salle (1651 – 1719) began an educational heritage of more than 300 years that ranges from store-front schools to great universities in over 80 countries. He is the Founder of the Brothers of the Christian Schools (known as the De La Salle Christian Brothers in the United

DE LA SALLE, JOHN BAPTIST, ST. Founder of the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools, religious educator; b. Reims, Apr. 30, 1651;d. Saint-Yon, Rouen, Apr. 7, 1719. Source for information on de la Salle, John Baptist, St.: New Catholic Encyclopedia dictionary.

St. Jean-Baptiste de La Salle was a French educator and the founder of the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools (sometimes called the de La Salle Brothers or the Christian Brothers), the first Roman Catholic congregation of male nonclerics devoted solely to schools, learning, and teaching.