Jose pedro varela biografia
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Varela, José Pedro (–)
José Pedro Varela (b. , d. ), Uruguayan educator.
Jose pedro varela biografia
Varela's leadership proved essential in the country's development of free, universal, and secular education. His early contact with educational theory came from his father, who, in , translated from the French the first book on pedagogy to be published in the Plata region.
During a trip to the United States in Varela met Argentine educator and future president Domingo Sarmiento, whose writings on public education he admired. Under the influence of Sarmiento and the Bostonian educator Horace Mann, Varela decided to dedicate his life to Uruguayan educational reform.
In Varela published the first of many articles in the Montevidean press promoting free and universal elementary schooling.
Jose pedro varela historia
He became a lecturer on educational reform at the National University that same year. In he founded Amigos de la Educación Popular, which played a central role in the dissemination of his ideas. Through his newspaper, La P