Abstract EN:

In the 17 th century, j. B. De la salle created the institute of the christian brothers to "run schools attended by the children of the poor and of craftsmen. " his pedagogical genius revealed itself in the following requirements : the regular training of the teaching staff (lay and religious educators), a collective and associative education, an individualized didactic approach, personalized educational methods. In the constant transformation of our modern civilization, the issue at stake for the institute is to know wheter the christian brothers will know how to graft some of "the instituting person" on to "the instituted matter". How can they carry out this task of institutionalizing? the answer to modernization and the safeguard of the specificity of the institute will come from the "aggiornamento". "the declaration of 1967" is the basic writing which completes "school running", the reference text by the founder.