of the experience is locked in an order of the actual intelligence. Vives' perception on intelligence is that it is only important when it is put to use. Having an intelligent gift is only meaningful when the person is actively exercising it. The exercising of intelligence is important in retaining memory, which creates a better learning experience in general. Vives was among the first to suggest that the health of a student, the personality of the teacher, the classroom environment and the types of authors that the students are required to read from are all very important in how the student learns. "Vives placed special stress upon the proper environment of the school as the first ecological ingredient of the child's sense experience." He compared learning and gaining knowledge to how humans digest food. Feeding the mind with knowledge is the same as feeding the body with food; it is essential to the human being. Major works Opuscula varia (1519), collection of small works include Vives' first philosophical works, De initiis, sectis et laudibus philosophiae. Adversus pseudodialecticos (1520) De ratione studii puerilis (1523) De institutione feminae christianae (1524). Dedicated to Catherine of Aragon. Introductio ad sapientiam (1524) Satellitium sive symbola (1524) De subventione pauperum. Sive de humanis necessitatibus libri II (1525). Deals with the problem of poverty. De Europae dissidiis et Republica (1526) De Europae dissidiis et bello Turcico (1526) De conditione vitae Christianorum sub Turca (1526) De concordia et discordia in humano genere (1529) De pacificatione (1529) Quam misera esset vita Christianorum sub Turca (1529) De disciplinis libri XX (1531). An encyclopedical work, divided into three parts: De causis corruptarum artium, De tradendis disciplinis and De artibus. Also includes De prima philosophia seu de intimo opificio Naturae, De explanatione cuiusque essentiae, De censura veri, De instrumento probabilitatis, and De disputatione. De consultatione liber unus (1533). A work on deliberative rhetoric. In quartum rhetoricorum ad Herennium praelectio (1533). An introduction to the Rhetoric to Herennius. De ratione dicendi (1533). A unique approach to rhetoric. De conscribendis epistolis (1534). A treatise on letter writing. De anima et vita (1538) Linguae Latinae exercitatio (1538) De Europae statu ac tumultibus. A mediation addressing to the Pope to ask peace between the Christian princes. De veritate fidei Christianae (1543) See also Vives Network Notes References "JUAN LUIS VIVES (1492?-1540), by Ricardo Marín Ibáñez, Prospects: the quarterly review of comparative education (Paris, UNESCO: International Bureau