Author: kristian9236 from Youtube, John baptist de la salle is renowned for promoting and reforming christian education especially among the poor and for founding the institute of the brothers of the christian schools who now teach around the french priest was one of the first pedagogues to emphasize classroom teaching in the vernacular instead of in he also founded three teachers colleges and in 1705 he established a reform school for boys at was born at rheims france april 30 1651 and raised in a noble family of 10 he studied in paris and was ordained in he died at yon rouen on good friday april 7 he was canonized by pope leo xiii in 1900 and named patron of teachers by pope pius xii in