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Simón Rodríguez / Teachers of teachers

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28 years ago exactly for 1769 was born in Caracas, Venezuela, Simón Narciso de Jesús Rodríguez, educator, philosopher, sociologist.
He was a mentor of the Liberator Simón Bolívar and a tireless fighter for educational freedom during the Spanish colonization.

In May of 1791 at 21 years of age, the Cabildo de Caracas gave him a position as a teacher at the School of Reading and Writing for Children. In this school he had the opportunity to be the tutor of the future liberator Simón Bolívar.

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In 1794, Simón Rodríguez presented a critical document to the City Council, ** Reflections on the defects that vitiate the school of first letters in Caracas ** and how to achieve its reform by a new establishment. It was a critical approach to colonial teaching.

Between 1806 and 1823, while much of the War of Independence was being fought in his native Venezuela, he lived in Italy, Germany, Russia, Prussia and the Netherlands. Then he would give his opinion about this period of time saying:

"I stayed in Europe for more than twenty years, I worked in an industrial chemistry laboratory [...], I attended secret socialist meetings ... I studied a little literature, I learned languages ​​and I ran a school of first letters in a little village of Russia. "

Contributions of Simón Rodríguez to education:

Rodriguez wanted education, in Venezuela and America, to be delivered with quality, around the personal development of people, their ability to understand and analyze the society in which they live, their human and personal development in the context of social development and the community based on principles and values ​​such as equality, equity, freedom, social and human emancipation.

An education that allows everyone to fully develop their talents and build themselves as individuals and as understanding and productive citizens. That teaches him to be, to live together, to learn and to work. In short, an education that teaches each individual to grow and develop as a person and to take care of their social environment, to teach them the values ​​and principles of their society.

• Train the people who face the world using their skills and abilities.
• Train thinking people not only use their memory and, finally, be taught to work and value their work. And with these bases a genuine Quality Education materializes.

Bases for an education with quality. (Simón Rodríguez)

• 1.- Education to train people and authentic citizens.
• 2.- Education that teaches how to learn.
• 3.- Education that teaches to work and value the work and the worker.

theater play by kids: Simón Rodrríguez y Simón Bolívar

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"The title of teacher should not be given only to the one who knows how to teach, this is the one who teaches to learn, not the one who commands to learn or indicates what is to be learned, nor the one who advises to learn. first instructions, he continues to teach virtually everything that is learned later, because he taught to learn" Simón Rodríguez.