ABSTRACT
This chapter exhibits the zeal of the Catholic Church in the education of the children of the poor. La Salle inaugurated his work by offering hospitality in his own house to several poor teachers. La Salle took the trouble to draw up for his Institute a very minute code of rules, with this title: The Conduct of Schools. Corporal punishment is freely permitted and regulated with exactness. La Salle distinguished five sorts of corrections like reprimand, penances, the ferule, the rod, expulsion from school. He removed penances and bodily inflictions from his institution, but he maintained them for himself, and continued his life of voluntary suffering. Demia, a priest of Lyons, who, in 1666, founded the Congregation of the Brethren of Saint Charles, for the instruction of poor children. In 1676, Claude Joly, precentor of Notre Dame, and judge of the little schools of the city, published his Christian and Moral Counsels for the Instruction of Children.
