Mexican teacher, educator, storyteller, and innovative educational systems. In 1892 he founded in Colima the primary model, teacher training and school tutors. He was director of the School Porfirio Diaz and for a short period was head and director of Public Instruction. from 1904 he was head of Primary Education and Normal. From 1910 to 1911 he was vice president and president of the National Congress of Primary Education. He taught at the National Preparatory School and the Normal School of Teachers. He advised the Ministry of Education. By order of the last Secretary of Education in the government of Porfirio Diaz, Jorge Vera Estañol, developed the Education Act rudimentary same prioritized literacy and castellanización the people to unify in the national language, even in exchange for losing the indigenous languages He is believing they were an obstacle to the formation of the national soul and considered the economic difficulties involve the task of preserving native languages, which cataloged of little relevance, except for antiques and linguists. This question led him to create a rivalry with the Oaxacan Professor Abraham Castellanos, who defended the poliglosis and cultural heterogeneity as well as to equip public schools own tools to learn agricultural work and other handicrafts. He conducted school reform using his famous phonetic onomatopoeic method, which is based on natural sounds to learn letters, syllables and words. In 1920, he traveled to America to meet and study modern pedagogical approaches. On his return to Mexico, was technical advisor from the Ministry of Education for three years. He retired from his post, he wrote more than 30 books, history, customs, stories, and other pedagogical issues.
He died in Mexico City on 28 January 1934.
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