History of education in Spain

Lecture on Theology at the University of Salamanca, with students from various religious orders. Martín de Cervera (1614).
With Pain Comes Gain, by Francisco de Goya (1780s). The work shows a scene in a school where the teacher is whipping a pupil, who uncovers his buttocks to receive the punishment. Next to him are other pupils crying after having received the same lesson.
An Investigation ( 1897), by Joaquín Sorolla. The painting shows a lesson inside the laboratory of the neurologist Luis Simarro at the end of the 19th century.

The history of education in Spain is marked by political struggles and the progress of modern societies. It began in the late Middle Ages, very close to the clergy and the nobility, and during the Renaissance it passed into the domain of a thriving bourgeois class that led an incipient enlightenment in the so-called Age of Enlightenment. The Constitution of 1812 and the drive of the liberals originated the contemporary education.


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