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Juan Luis Vives (1492-1540)
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Juan Luis Vives, in an engraving by Jean-Jacques Boissard from Icones quinquaginta, 1597. Vives, born in Spain in 149 and educated in Paris, lived and wrote in the Netherlands, France, and England. He was an important educator attached to the circle of Erasmus. His most important works—De institutione foeminae Christianae (1523; "On the Education of a Christian Woman"), De ratione studii puerilis ("On the Right Method of Instruction for Children"), De subventione pauperum (1526; "On Aid for the Poor"), and De tradendis disciplinis (1531; "On the Subjects of Study")—stressed that men and women of all social classes should receive some kind of an education.
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