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John Baptiste de La Salle was born into a wealthy French family in the mid 1600’s. Early in life he abandoned his wealth to devote himself to educating children who were less fortunate than he. De La Salle organized a group of lay teachers who shared his devotion to education and established a Roman Catholic order of Brothers devoted to education.
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Kearney, E.M. (2013). Being Zealous. In: On Becoming a Teacher. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-392-8_5
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