Juan Luis Vives, Spanish Educator
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Juan Luis Vives, Spanish Educator
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Juan Luis Vives (March 6, 1493 - May 6, 1540), was a Valencian Spanish scholar and humanist. As a child, he saw his father, grandmother and great-grandfather, as well as members of their wider family, executed as Judaizers at the behest of the Spanish Inquisition. His mother was acquitted but died of the plague when he was 15 years old. He left Spain never to return. He studied at the University of Paris from 1509 to 1512, and in 1519 was appointed professor of humanities at the University of Leuven. He was invited to England, and acted as tutor to the Princess Mary. Having declared himself against the annulment of the marriage of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon, he lost royal favour and was confined to his house for six weeks. On his release, he withdrew to Bruges. Vives imagined and described a comprehensive theory of education. His idea of a diverse and concrete children's education long preceded Jean Jacques Rousseau, and may have indirectly influenced Rousseau through Montaigne. His most important pedagogic work are Introductio ad sapientiam (1524), De disciplinis, which stressed the urgent importance of more rational programs of studying; De prima philosophia; and the Exercitatio linguae latinae, which is a Latin textbook consisting of a series of dialogues. He died in 1540 at the age of 48.
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