- Escuela Moderna
La Escuela Moderna (Spanish for "The Modern School") was a progressive school that existed briefly at the start of the 20th century in
Catalonia (Spain ).Founded in 1901cite journal |author=Geoffrey C. Fidler |year=1985 |month=Spring/Summer |title=The Escuela Moderna Movement of Francisco Ferrer: "Por la Verdad y la Justicia" |journal=History of Education Quarterly |volume=25 |issue=1/2 |pages=103–132 |id= |url=http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0018-2680%28198521%2F22%2925%3A1%2F2%3C103%3ATEMMOF%3E2.0.CO%3B2-R&size=LARGE&origin=JSTOR-enlargePage |doi=10.2307/368893] in
Barcelona by free-thinkerFrancesc Ferrer i Guàrdia , the school's stated goal was to "educate the working class in a rational,secular and non-coercive setting". In practice, high tuition fees restricted attendance at the school to wealthiermiddle class students. It was privately hoped that when the time was ripe forrevolution ary action, these students would be motivated to lead the working classes.It closed in 1906. Shortly after, Ferrer was executed for
sedition .Today, the only remaining archives from the school are held in the
special collection s department of theUniversity of California, San Diego . [http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/speccoll/testing/html/mss0248a.html]La Escuela Moderna, and Ferrer's ideas generally, formed the inspiration for a series of "Modern Schools" in the
United States ,Cuba ,South America andLondon . The first of these was started inNew York City in 1911. It also inspired the Italian newspaper "Università popolare", founded in 1901.References
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Popular education
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