La educación en México - El siglo XX, primera parte (10/06/2014)

In this episode, we learn about the end of the Revolution and the creation of the 1917 Constitution (which retains the liberal spirit of the 1857 Constitution), as well as the drafting of Article 3, whose antecedents are found in the 1824 Constitution and is proposed in the 1857 Constitution. We also delve into the national unification process implemented by Álvaro Obregón, the literacy campaign, and a school breakfast program launched by Vasconcelos in July 1920. In October of that year, Vasconcelos presented the project for the creation of the Secretariat of Public Education. A year later, the decree establishing it was published, and Vasconcelos was appointed Secretary. These were the principles for the consolidation of the Educating State. The educational policy of the post-revolutionary governments (1920–1940) promoted education as a means to rebuild a state that would guarantee the country's progress and modernization. The SEP supported the children's crusade against illiteracy (1922). Normal schools were founded, in addition to rural, technical, and agricultural schools. The National University achieved its autonomy and ceased to depend on the SEP (SEP) (1929). This was a brief period of socialist education promoted by President Lázaro Cárdenas. The National Polytechnic Institute was also created in 1936, as the country's incipient modernization and industrialization necessitated the creation of secondary and higher education schools for technical education. Jaime Torres Bodet's educational project launched a new campaign against illiteracy. President Adolfo López Mateos decreed the 11-Year Plan, the first attempt at long-term educational planning (1958). At Jaime Torres Bodet's initiative, López Mateos created the Free Textbook Commission (1959).