Bosco College of Teacher Education, Dimapur, Nagaland, is an educational institution of the Catholic Church, belonging to and managed by the Salesians of Don Bosco, Dimapur Province. The College is named after St. John Bosco (1815-1888), popularly known as Don Bosco, the Father and Friend of Youth.  John Melchior Bosco (Don Bosco) was born into a family of a poor Italian farmer on 16th August, 1815, at Becchi, a hamlet near Turin, Italy. At the tender age of two he lost his father, and he had to undergo immense sufferings and challenges in his early life.

His mother, Margaret, took on the task of bringing up her three children with tenderness and great courage. She taught them to till the soil and to see God’s presence in the beauty of the sky, in the abundant harvest and even in the storms which destroyed their vines.

John saw in the dream a divine commission to work for poor and abandoned urchins and the youth. The long   years that followed were directed by an amazing enthusiasm to make that dream come true, which was not without its share of challenges and incredible hardships. However, adorned with the gift of splendid blending of nature and grace, Don Bosco accomplished incredible feats in the service and welfare of the poor youth, and his mission was widely acknowledged all over Italy and the rest of Europe and Latin America.

A mysterious dream at the age of nine left an indelible stamp on his entire life. He saw himself amidst a group of scruffy street children who were fighting and using abusive language. He jumped into their midst to stop the commotion, hitting out wildly with his fist. A majestic personage, who introduced himself as Jesus, stopped him. He promised to give John Bosco a ‘teacher’ who would show him how to deal with the ragamuffins, who, to John’s horror, had metamorphosed into ferocious beasts!