Learning without piety produces a proud device; piety without learning produces a useless one.
Jean-Baptiste de La SalleChildren are guilty of unpardonable rudeness when they spit in the face of a companion; neither are they excusable who spit from windows or on walls or furniture.
Jean-Baptiste de La SalleThe birch is used only out of bad temper and weakness, for the birch is a servile punishment which degrades the soul even when it corrects, if indeed it corrects, for its usual effect is to harden.
Jean-Baptiste de La SalleTeachers who are not actively involved in the learning process themselves, force their students to drink from stagnant water
Jean-Baptiste de La Salle