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Gabino Barreda was born in the city of Puebla in the
state of the same name in 1818.
From very small he demonstrated to be a brilliant
student and at the age of 26 years he studies for to be a doctor. In 1847 he
participated like a surgeon during the North American invasion to our country.
During a stay in Paris he knows the Positivist
Philosophy by Agusto Comte, which would influence in his suggested model of
education.
President Benito Juarez chose to Gabino to form a
committee dedicated to reform the education in Mexico. For Barreda the Mexican
system of education had to be reconstructed if they were wanted to reconstruct
the society.
The system in which Barreda believed had to be based
on sciences and to demonstrate his ideas the Preparatory National School founds
on 1867. In the establishment of his program Gabino Barreda chose well
prepared professors achieving a great success, in spite of the doubts in his
ideas.
During the decade of the seventies of 1800 a
modernization was being carried out and the reformists of these years wanted to
Gabino Barreda outside the Preparatory National School.
This struggle ended with the resign of Barreda and he
had to accept a diplomatic position in Germany in 1878, which was a way of
exile. Gabino Barreda dies in the city of Mexico in 1885.
At the present time exists a prize : The Gabino
Barreda Medal which is given to the students who have concluded their degree,
masters and Doctorate with the highest qualification of their
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