Historia de la instrucción pública en Puerto Rico hasta el año de 1898
“Bacchus; or, wine to-day and to-morrow” by P. Morton Shand is a cultural and gastronomic treatise written in the early 20th century. It likely examines wine’s history, production, and social place, weighing current practices against future trends in viticulture and taste. Readers curious about wine’s craft and culture would find it engaging. The opening of this historical study assembles a clear, document-based account of how public instruction took shape in Puerto Rico.
It frames Spain’s colonial model—rooted in church-led missions, early colleges, and the printing press—before narrowing to the island’s specifics: royal mandates to teach indigenous people and caciques’ sons, 16th–17th century grammar teaching endowed by local patrons, and Dominican and Cathedral schools. The author rebuts claims of scant schooling by citing a late-18th-century directive that organized local primary schools, funded teachers, and welcomed children of all races together. Moving into the early 19th century, it highlights a medical chair in San Juan, the Sociedad Económica’s push for girls’ education, mathematics and drawing academies, public examinations with medals, and a short-lived bid to adopt the Lancaster method. A pivotal moment comes with the dean’s launch of higher studies at San Ildefonso (theology, philosophy, law, and Latin), plus civic schemes—like a theater—to finance a seminary. The section closes as administrative notes in the early 1830s record uneven attendance and the closure of a few rural schools. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Coll y Toste, Cayetano, 1850-1930 |
|---|---|
| LoC No. | 10027589 |
| Title | Historia de la instrucción pública en Puerto Rico hasta el año de 1898 |
| Credits | Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) |
| Language | Spanish |
| LoC Class | LA: Education: History of education |
| Subject | Public schools -- Puerto Rico -- History |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 77353 |
| Release Date | Nov 27, 2025 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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