The author of the essay noted how in France Don Bosco is not mentioned (except for the French Salesian Desramaut who conducted in-depth studies on the Saint) among the great names of those who made the history of pedagogy. The young people Don Bosco helped were poor and abandoned, misfits. The Preventive System approach that contrasted the repressive system used in those days, undoubtedly revolutionized the field of education.