José Manuel Prellezo García – “Don Bosco and professional schools (1870-1887)” in “Don Bosco’s place in history”

Prellezo traces the birth and the development and organization phases of the vocational schools established by Don Bosco and related laboratories that would have given the opportunity to poor and abandoned young people to learn a useful profession in order to have a better future.

Prellezo ripercorre la nascita e le fasi di sviluppo ed organizzazione delle scuole professionali istituite da Don Bosco e relativi laboratori che avrebbero dato la possibilità ai giovani poveri e abbandonati di imparare un mestiere utile per avere un futuro migliore. 

SUMMERY

• 0. Preliminary observations
• 1. Don Bosco’s workshops: introductory notes
• 2. The progressive separation of the artisans and students and the “great improvement of the artisans” (1870-1878)
• 3. The Artisan section: proposals for its organization (1879-1882)
• 4. Guidelines for a plan 

Reference time period: 1870 – 1887

Reference institution:
Centro Studi Don Bosco