TY - BOOK AU - Battersby, William John TI - De La Salle: a pioneer of modern education. PY - 1949/// CY - London PB - Longmans Green KW - Christian educators KW - sears KW - LaSalle, Jean Baptiste de, Saint, 1651-1719 N1 - Photocopy. Dasmariñas, Cavite : Aklatang Emilio Aguinaldo, 2002 N2 - The book presents the accounts of St. John Baptist De La Salle as an educationist. It brings out clearly that De La Salle was the first in the field for training colleges for teachers, as distinct from ecclesiastical seminaries. It traces in detail his greatest achievement - the establishment of a body of trained teachers for "poor schools" at a time when there were none as yet ER -