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Education in Copiapó, Atacama (Gilliss, 1851)

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Liceo de Hombres de Copiapó

 Literature: Education in Atacama, Chile

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There may also be enumerated among the public institutions a college for the education of young men, under the patronage of government. . . .
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Education, Copiapo :

Gilliss  at Atacama: DESCRIPTIVE GEOGRAPHY.

Gilliss (1855):
There may also be enumerated among the public institutions a college for the education of young men, under the patronage of government. It is under the direction of French Jesuits, who occupy a convent belonging to the Merced church. Besides the income of the convent, amounting to $ 1,500, and a yearly stipend of $1,000 from the public treasury, each resident student pays them $207 for board. At this time there were 25 interns and only 11 day scholars. In addition to the duties imposed as an equivalent for the government subsidy, they are required by their contract with the Minister of Public Instruction to teach gratuitously a primary school of 30 scholars, should so many offer. A college for instruction in mineralogy and mineralogical chemistry is in course of organization, under the auspices of the Mining Board, and will shortly be in operation. But the number of those within the province who receive even rudimentary instruction is extremely limited, the best estimate fixing it at one in every 59. The whole number attending schools in 1850 was 885, of whom 725 were males and 160 females.

In a report recently made, to the Minister of the Interior by the Intendente of the province, a most deplorable account is given of the ignorance of those surrounding him. He estimates the population of Atacama at 50,000 souls....

Gilliss (1855):
Essentially industrial and active as they are, the people of Copiapó do not need so much a collegiate or scientific education as practical and rapid instruction for the masses. Here a disposition to labor predominates, because of its remunerative results ; and few or none think of a civil or military career as at the capital, because they possess no attractions to men wholly preoccupied in lucrative speculations or personal occupations affording the highest pay.

In order to obviate the odium attendant on a condition of society so uninformed, a normal school for the preparation of teachers was commenced under the authority of the Intendente, and also a night school at which mechanics could attend gratuitously. Both were promising good results, though the provision for females remained neglected as before, and there were only two establishments in the whole city where they were admitted.

 

 

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Literature:
● U. S Naval Astronomical Expedición
; The southern hemisfere , The Years 1849-50-51-52: Liut. J. M. Gilliss (p. 258-259)  Bibliografía (Colección W. Griem)

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