CIVILIZATION OR BARBARIE
Education with cane and frock coat
The Progressive leaders.
Artigas and Estanilao López
 They intended the organization of education
to reflect their political proximity to the
people they governed.
 They promoted Education Protective Boards
 Educational work aimed at the inhabitants of
the town and the countryside.
 Pedagogical Imaginary (progressive leaders) a
democratic Pedagogical Federalism emerges.
Religion or death .
Facundo Quiroga
 His educational proposals include
conservative traditionalism, nationalism and
the exaltation of the popular.
 He defended the colonial educational
conception rooted in the Argentine
Northwest.
 The field of education was the natural
property of the Catholic Church.
 Defended old cultures and traditional
education, under the motto “Religion or
Death”
The pedagogical liberalism of the generation of 1837
Porteño liberal conservatism.
(The education of leaders)
Bernardino Rivadavia
 He introduced the Laucasterian method.
 I decree compulsory schooling.
 I founded the Benevolent Society.
 Promoted the development of secondary
education.
 He opted for the Napoleonic model where the
university is at the top of the pyramid as the
rector of all educational establishments.
 Pedagogical Subject. Isolated from the rest,
with a modern, utilitarian, economic
mentality and disinterested in the social
context.
 Pedagogical Imaginary modernizing
conservatism.
 He wanted a centralization of education in the
Buenos Aires power.
 He aspired to form an enlightened and
privileged minority.
Juan Manuel De Rosas.
 Defense of the colonial educational order,
Catholic and conservative nationalism.
 He established harsh press censorship and
destroyed books.
 The defense of the nation was the most
important value.
 In 1831, he homogenized the school programs
and adapted the contents to popular
conservatism.
 He required teachers to sign a certificate of
adherence to the government
 In 1935 the mandatory use of the punzó
currency was imposed.
 In 1936, he handed over the administration of
education to the Jesuits.
 In 1838, teachers' salaries were erased from
the budget and it was established that
parents and relatives would pay the
local expenses, teachers, monitors and school
supplies.
 He was against public education and
compulsory schooling.
 Established the collection of fees in primary
schools, which generated an increase in
private education
 The role of education was linked more to
order than to work.
 He created the Lancasterian School, his wife
founded the
Argentine School (for girls).