Teacher's Day

ORIGIN
In 1920 President Alfredo Baquerizo decreed on April 13 as the Day of Ecuadorian Master in tribute to the writer and educator Juan Montalvo, who was born on April 13, 1832.
On this memorable day tribute of respect and gratitude to all those who exercise the ministry of education surrenders. Juan Montalvo was an outstanding thinker and great defender of democracy.
On April 13 of each year is the occasion in which society expresses its sincere appreciation to everyday till the present and the future of the country in children, young people and their children.

Andthe life work of Juan Montalvo were and remain magisterial teachings for their moral and aesthetic value. As forger of youth, Juan Montalvo knew the inescapable need to instill in young people the values of justice, freedom, honor, love of country.
Juan Montalvo was the master of style, the great battler against tyrannies, the apostle of freedom, the saint of rebellion.


Juan Montalvo
He was born in Ambato - Ecuador, on April 13, 1832. He made his birthplace in primary school, and continued in Quito high school and college, although he did not complete his law studies. In 1853, he started in Ambato his journalistic and literary work. For jobs in the Legation of Ecuador, he toured Switzerland, Italy, France. With the government of Gabriel Garcia Moreno, Montalvo took refuge in Colombia, then went to Paris and Panama.

In 1875 he returned home and the following year began publishing "Regenerator" but again had to leave Ecuador. He settled in Paris, where he made several publications, but because of a lung problem, died on January 17, 1889. Among other works, there may be mentioned:
• The Cosmopolitan
• The Seven Treaties
• Chapters that he forgot Cervantes

MUSIC

Teachers' Day in Venezuela

On January 15, 1932, during the dictatorship of Juan Vicente Gómez educators they formed the Venezuelan Society of Teachers of Public Instruction to defend labor rights of teachers and improve education in the country. Led by Miguel Suniaga and Luis Beltrán Prieto Figueroa, they founded the Venezuelan Society of Teachers of Public Instruction.

Years later, in 1945 that date was proclaimed to honor the Venezuelan educators and remember the creation of the Venezuelan Society of Teachers of Public Instruction.

Between 1949 and 1958, during the dictatorship of General Marcos Perez Jimenez, the magisterial movement was diminished, since many of the teachers who had actively participated in it had to leave the country, because they were linked to replaced democratic government.

During the term of Perez Jimenez in 1952, the celebration of Teacher's Day was changed to November 29, the birthday of Andres Bello, to erase the memory of the heroic deeds of teachers against the dictatorship.

From 1959, after the fall of the Perez Jimenez dictatorship, he was retaken the date that was initially fixed by Medina Angarita and which currently pays homage to the Venezuelan teachers.