Abstract

CAMPO DEL POZO, Fernando. THE BOY WITH HIS FATHER BY FRAY DIEGO PADILLA. Rev.hist.educ.latinoam. [online]. 2014, vol.16, n.23, pp.145-174. ISSN 0122-7238.

This article aims at presenting the pedagogical thought of Father Fray Diego Francisco Padilla, in a pamphlet entitled The Boy in his Father, where emerged a study it is made and played. Diego Padilla was the most agustinian conspicuous of the american enlightment in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. As an illustrated Creole he was pioneer in the modern philosophy and popular education. He was a bit puzzling to not sign his books. The introduction discusses some facets of his life and works, as an educator and promoter of the independence of the new Kingdom of Granada. He was parish priest, provincial and university professor with skills of governor and journalist. In 1809, he had already written 49 booklets "on the way and circumstances to make happy" to his homeland, he served that drafting the Act of independence of Colombia and became President of the Congress. . He was a friend of Antonio Nariño and Simon Bolivar. He was prisoner and he suffered the exile for defending the independence of America and the human rights. He was neo-rusonian in economy and he translated into Spanish the treaty of Economy of J. J. Rousseau. He contradicted in education, refuting the Emilio with his book The boy with his father, who is a complete model of civic ans Christian education.

Keywords : Journal History of the Latin American education; independence of America; economy; education and freedom.

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