2024-07-27 06:19:29
“The Academy of Uruguay is my glorious heir,” Urquiza wrote to his political rival, the Mason brother Mitre. Perhaps he missed the “only one” because the anniversary denied Urquiza almost all the glory he thought he had left to posterity. For example, no one remembers February 3, the date that ensured the victory of the Union program on the battlefield in 1853. Only in his province. No one celebrates this holiday elsewhere in this united country, dominated by the fate and misfortunes of Goliath’s head, which nevertheless remains officially known as the Argentine Federation; yes, according to Article 35 of the Constitution Strip, that’s one of their names. Because the truth is, the federal program failed. But that’s another story.
What interests us today is the history of the laboratory that Urquiza established on July 28, 1849, in Concepción del Uruguay (which everyone called Uruguay at that time, and which we then called Uruguay). (and now). Urquiza follows the little-known tradition of federal mass education (initiated by Artigas, continued by Ramírez and crowned by the winner of Caceros), which already has 47 schools on its territory, while Bu There were only 35 schools in the province of Enos Aires at that time.
Founded as a university where the federation’s new elite would be educated, regardless of class (though in the following decades, regardless of gender), the Instituto Uruguay was secular, liberal and popular at its birth. So much so that when Father Erausquin wanted to say daily mass for the prisoners, Urquiza comforted him: “I have no intention of training clergy,” he said. In 1854 he appointed to its administration Alberto Larroqaue, a French republican best known for his stewardship of the academy during its so-called “golden age”: he attracted a large number of foreign enlightened people, isolated His chair was occupied by activists, revolutionary exiles, and European women of 1848 such as Alejo Peyret. Urquiza entrusted Larocque to spare no expense to hire the best teachers for the institution he founded in 1849.
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After Rosas’ defeat, it was impossible not to sympathize with the image of Urquiza, a different federal leader, concerned about education, who was emigrating – egalitarian liberals, enemies of all centralization – Looking for “European wise men” who would lay the foundations for the future generation of leaders of the Argentine federation. Over time, among his teachers appeared scientists such as the German Pablo Günter Lorentz, after whom today the school’s Museum of Natural Sciences is named.
“The Historic Man” (as he is called in his city) has a hidden but enduring tradition of rebellion. In 1864, half a century before the 18th-century reforms, students at the college rose up to oust a principal who was “not very conscientious” and “unworthy of respect.” There were two more rebellions before the end of the 19th century. The seeds sown by real liberal professors have sprouted (not like those paleoliberals who ruled Argentina). A priest at the time told the bishop that the college’s professors were Freemasons, atheists, materialists and “indifferent” to religion. The inevitable consequence of what the outraged priest wrote, according to researcher Jorge Villanova, is “the existence of the most perverted young people” who “have had no scientific education except theirs.” Asking for nothing.” Somewhat of this tradition is reflected in the shield, which provocatively reads “In Hoc Signo Vinces” (“With this sign you will win,” Constantine’s famous motto), But instead of a cross, it shows a book.
During these days of celebration, the school reflects its past splendor in courtyards filled with natural beauty, trees and plants nearly two hundred years old, in magical galleries, in the restored Mirador and in a beautiful library with more than 35,000 volumes. . It was common to show visitors a bust of Julio A. Roca, and there was a tradition of touching his nose (hence the smoothness) to pass the test. But Rocca only stayed at the academy for two years, and as dean he was in a sense the executioner of the academy: he closed the law degree for its professors and abolished the university character of “heir”. All this is because that race is the “den of Jordanians”: teachers and students are active militants of the last federal armed leaders.
During the tenure of the famous José Zubiaur as rector, Teresa Ratto, Argentina’s second doctorate and the first female bachelor in the country, studied and received her degree. Part of the historic heritage is the gallery of glorious alumni: three former Argentine presidents (Rocca, Vittorino de la Plaza and Arturo Frondizzi), Peron’s first vice-president Juan Hortensio Quijano; leaders of neighboring countries, a long list of governors (at least thirteen provinces), Onesimo Leguizamon, Antonio Sagana, Arturo E. Jurists such as Sampe, Olegario Andrade, Fray Mojo, Martignano Leguizamon, Carlos Mastronardi and Arnaldo Carr Vera and other writers. Men and women of science such as Domingo Lyotard, Elisa Hirshhorn, Roberto Caraballo or David Efron (one of the fathers of scientific anthropology), as well as Mario Ser Historians such as Sal Glass.
The current principal, Ramón Cieri, told PERFIL that the school, which has relied on the Autonomous University of Entre Ríos since 2000, has more than 1,200 students, divided into three classes and 59 groups: 27 in the morning and 27 in the afternoon. There are 4 orientation programs for high school and middle school students respectively on the spot and night shifts, and orientation programs for teenagers and adults. He proudly commented on the events that will celebrate the 175th anniversary in a few days and concluded: “Today, the historical community poses new challenges: to rethink the founding mission, to respond to current needs – new technologies, interdisciplinarity, environmental commitment, Gender Perspective, which includes a curriculum proposal to restore federalism by justifying the work of General Urquiza and other popular leaders who laid the foundations of democratic, republican and federal nation-states.
*Doctor of Philosophy (Unsam), journalist, member of the El Miércoles cooperative, graduate of the Uruguayan Institute.
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