An important date in the history of national education. Find out why this important day is commemorated.
Every September 11th, Teachers’ Day is celebrated in Argentina. The date invites us to reflect on the importance of education, especially for those who are growing up. The day was chosen to commemorate one of the people who most revolutionized the scope of school in our country.
It is Domingo Faustino Sarmiento who proposed the National Law 1420, which established that education in Argentina should be secular, free, universal and compulsory. This was done during the government of President Julio Argentino Roca at the end of the 19th century, in 1884.
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Why is Teachers’ Day celebrated every September 11 in Argentina?
Considered the “Father of the Classroom”, Domingo Faustino Sarmiento was a politician, educator, teacher, journalist, writer, philosopher, statesman and military man. He was president of the nation between 1868 and 1874. Teachers’ Day was established in commemoration of the date of his death, September 11, 1888.
But the date was not decreed at that time; it was necessary to wait until 1943, when the First Conference of Ministers and Directors of Education of the American Republics was held in Panama, for the project to emerge that ended up being realized in 1945 under the presidency of Edelmiro Farrell.
Source: Ambito
