User:Llcoro/Baldiri Reixac i Carbó

Baldiri Reixac i Carbó (Bell-lloc d'Aro, Empordà, January 1703 - Ollers, Vilademuls, February 15th 1781) was a Catalonian educator and clergyman.

The Fundació Lluís Carulla (Lluís Carulla Foundation in Catalan) since 1978 awards anual prizes to schools, teachers and students. The awards are called Premis Baldiri Reixac. Baldiri Reixac studied in the Girona's seminary. He followed the teachings of Charles Rollin, dean of the University of Paris. He governed the parish of San Martí d'Ollers from 1730 to 1781. In 1749 he published the book Instruccions per l’ensenyança de minyons (Instructions for the Teaching of Children), a universal compendium of the Enlightment Age. The book includes an encyclopaedia, some dictionaries and grammars, a treatise of pedogogy and an instruction manual of different subject matters.

He left unpublished the Llibre de diferents notes del que ha passat en aquesta rectoria (Book with different notes of what has happened in this rectory house), a notebook about the events that happened in his rectory house. He wrote in Catalan in accordance with his principles and his belief that children should be educated in their mother tongue and not in Latin. Reixac asserted that children should learn five languages, in the following order: Catalan, Latin, Spanish, French and Italian.