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Andrés Manjón: A Visionary Educator

ANDRÉS MANJÓN

Biography

Born in Burgos on November 30, 1846, Andrés Manjón was educated by his uncle. His mother persuaded him to attend school and receive a basic education. He later moved to the University of Granada, where he lived the rest of his days. There, he founded the first Ave Maria School and began his revolutionary approach to teaching methods. Throughout his life, he opened about 400 Ave Maria Schools.

Historical Context

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, four key developments shaped pedagogy in Europe:

• The rise of the active school movement
• Trends toward improved civic education
• Increased protection of youth
• The emergence of novel educational movements

There was a significant transformation... Continue reading "Andrés Manjón: Biography, Pedagogy, and Legacy" »

Spanish Constitution of 1812

• Form of Government: Parliamentary Constitutional Monarchy
• Executive Branch: King and Ministers
• Legislature: Parliament and King (with "suspensive veto on laws")
• Judiciary: Independent
• Suffrage: Universal Male Suffrage (Indirect)
• State Religion: Confessional (Catholic)
• Established wide rights and freedoms.
• Cortes: Unicameral

Spanish Constitution of 1869

• Constitutional Monarchy
• Sovereignty: National
• Complete Separation of Powers
• Suffrage: Direct Universal Male Suffrage
• Non-denominational State (Secular)
• Guaranteed rights including Religious Freedom, education, and the right to inviolability of information.

Key Ideologies: Liberalism and Nationalism

Liberalism was the ideology defending individual freedom, a core value during the Restoration... Continue reading "19th Century Political Transformation: Constitutions, Liberalism, and 1848 Revolutions" »

Political Institutions of the Autonomous Communities

Article 151 of the Spanish Constitution outlines the requirements for certain Autonomous Communities (CCAA) to access a higher level of autonomy, necessitating the configuration of specific central bodies or institutions.

Each Autonomous Community features a Legislative Assembly, elected by universal suffrage through a proportional representation system. This system is designed to ensure representation for the diverse areas within the territory.

Governing Council

The Governing Council performs administrative and executive functions. Its composition is not explicitly detailed in the Constitution but is determined by each Autonomous Statute.

President of the Autonomous Community

The President of

Solon's Economic & Social Reforms

Solon implemented significant economic, social, and political changes, including freeing those enslaved by debt and prohibiting using oneself as loan collateral. He also reformed government institutions.

Cleisthenes' Democratic Reforms

Cleisthenes, in the late sixth century BC, organized citizens into demes based on residence, not birth or wealth. He expanded citizen participation, ensuring equal rights for all.

Pericles' Athenian Democracy

Pericles perfected the democratic system by transferring powers from the aristocratic Areopagus to the ecclesia. He introduced payments for public service, making it accessible beyond the wealthy, thus solidifying Athenian democracy in the 5th century BC.

Contrasting Political

Alfonso XIII's 1931 Manifesto

This primary source text, socio-political in nature, is the manifesto of Alfonso XIII addressed to the country. He handed it to the Council of Ministers on April 14, 1931, but it was published in ABC three days later, on April 17, 1931. It was subsequently published in other newspapers, often with accompanying commentary.

Historical Context

Alfonso XIII was the last monarch of his lineage to reign in Spain. The period leading up to 1931 was marked by political corruption, economic exhaustion, and growing labor and socialist movements. It was thought that Primo de Rivera could solve these problems (likened to a 'Surgeon Iron'). Alfonso XIII granted him power in 1923, which he held until 1930. The subsequent government... Continue reading "Alfonso XIII's 1931 Manifesto and Spain's Second Republic" »

Treaty V: The Pardoner

- The pardoner was the man who sold bulls, for example, removed privileged documents from religious orders, eating meat, etc. prohibited by church regulations on certain days.
- The pardoner of Lazarillo is the most shameless that no one has ever seen.
- Lazaro makes a silent spectator of the delusions of the pardoner, learning to keep quiet.

Treaty VI: The Master of Painting Tambourines and the Waterboy
- It's almost as schematic as the fourth; just say it serves two masters, the second being the watering hole that was four years.
- With savings, he could buy a sword and clothes. He goes from teen to adult.

Treaty VII: The Dean of San Salvador

- Lazarillo recounts that he has been a constable, but he has left him because he... Continue reading "Understanding the Themes and Characters in Lazarillo" »

Outline of Scientific Knowledge Through History

Greco-Medieval Era

Introduction

Philosophy was considered equivalent to Science and dealt with universal essences. Myth, on the other hand, was associated with *doxa*, representing multiple and changing appearances. The Middle Ages maintained a similar scheme, but with a theological basis.

The Universe: A Biological Model

• The universe was seen as a living being, finite (limited) and ordered (a cosmos), and full of matter (not empty).
• Qualitative Approach: Nature endowed each substance with potentialities determining its nature:
  • Plants: grow, survive, nurture, and reproduce.
  • Animals: feel, crave, and move.
  • Humans: think.
• Geocentric and Geostatic: A heterogeneous view where celestial phenomena differed from

The Generation of '36: Poetry Post-War (1936)

In the 1940s and early 1950s, a number of poets, more or less the same age as M. Hernández, formed what is known as the Generation of '36. This group began writing in the years immediately preceding the war, addressing very human issues. Some had to continue their work in exile, while those who remained in Spain were oriented in various ways, which Dámaso Alonso categorized into two types: rooted poetry and uprooted poetry.

Rooted Poetry

This poetry belonged to those who held faith in something that ordered the world, such as political, religious, or loving ideas. Among them was a group calling itself Youth Creating, grouped around a magazine named Garcilaso. General characteristics of the Garcilasistas... Continue reading "Spanish Poetry After the Civil War: 1936-1950s" »

José Ortega y Gasset: A Biographical Sketch

José Ortega y Gasset was born in Madrid in 1883, into a liberal and enlightened bourgeois family. His mother owned the newspaper El Imparcial, where his father served as director. Ortega alternated his dedication between philosophy and journalism, acting as a prominent political theorist of his time. He staunchly defended Republican ideology.

After his exile, he returned to Spain in 1945 and passed away ten years later. Ortega's intellectual trajectory is typically divided into three periods: objectivist, ratiovitalist, and perspectivist.

Historical and Cultural Context of Ortega's Era

This period holds significant importance in the recent history of Spain and the world. In Spain, the Bourbon Restoration... Continue reading "Ortega y Gasset: Spanish Philosophy in Historical Perspective" »

The Spanish Restoration: From Republic to Monarchy

The End of the First Republic (January 1874)

The Spanish First Republic collapsed with the dissolution of the Cortes, orchestrated by General Manuel Pavía, accompanied by a group of Civil Guards, in January 1874. However, the republic remained alive in name, transforming into a presidential republic whose head of government was Serrano.

The main activities of this government included suppressing the independence of the Canton of Cartagena, confronting Carlist organizations that had revolted again and played a significant role in the Third Carlist War, and outlawing trade unions.

Cánovas's Vision: The Bourbon Return

While Serrano was in power, Antonio Cánovas del Castillo, who had formed the Alfonsine... Continue reading "Spain's Bourbon Restoration: Politics and Power Shift" »