Adrian Nyel

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Adrian Nyel was a 17th century French educator. Nyel was idealistic, but lacked the inspiration and funds to actually put his ideas and inventions into effect. Eventually, he met Saint Jean-Baptiste de la Salle, a wealthy priest and the author of numerous religious and historical texts.

Nyel came up with the idea of teaching to a class, or medium-sized group of students, rather than simply giving only the wealthy and noble education through tutors. This idea was accepted by de la Salle, who opened a school and trained teachers. This school would be the equivalent of an excellent preparatory/private Roman Catholic school. Baptiste de la Salle brought both impoverished children and children of normal income to his classes. He spent his wealth to educate his teachers and opened numerous other schools.

Nyel then introduced the idea of students learning their own language at school and learning Latin from their tutors, if they were wealthy enough to afford such a luxury. de La Salle used this idea as well and spent all his wealth to educate the children and teachers. Nyel, however, is little given the rightful recognition for his idealism, which played a large part in the educational systems of today.