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Philosopher, educator, and psychologist Juan Luis Vives (1492‒1540) was an early humanist, educational theorist, and Renaissance man. He was born in Valencia into a wealthy family of Jewish tradesmen. His family had been forced to convert to Catholicism so as to safeguard their lives and property and to avoid being expelled from Spain. They nonetheless continued to practice Judaism in a private synagogue in their home. In 1482, a decade before Juan Luis Vives was born, the Inquisition caught them in the middle of a Jewish service, and the ...