The Colégio Culto à Ciência (

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for ''"Cult to Science" High School''), denominated E.E. Culto à Ciência), is a public secondary

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located in the city of

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, state of

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. It was founded in 1874, as a boy's private school by ''Sociedade Culto à Ciência'', which members were partly of the Mason's Commission of the Campinas' Justice Lodge "Independence". Composed by the city's farmers, merchants and intellectuals, among such were: Antônio Pompeu de Camargo;

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; Manoel Ferraz de Campos Salles, then the Secretary of the Campinas' Lodge (later, President of Brazil during 1898-1902''Presidência da República Federativa do Brasil''---"Campos Sales, Third Period of Republican Government"
/ref>); Jorge Krug; Joaquim Bonifácio do Amaral, the Viscount of Indaiatuba; Joaquim Egídio de Souza Aranha, the Marquis of Tres Rios; Cândido Ferreira; and, the Baron of Atibaia. The school's name reflects the influence of positivism on its founders. In 1890 the school went through a financial crisis and had to close its doors until 1896, when it was reopened under the aegis of the state (then province of São Paulo), as the ''Ginásio Estadual'' (State Gymnasium). Until 1964, when a controversial educational reform was promoted by the military régime, it was an equalitarian, high quality school, used both by the economical élite and the ascending

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. Presently, they are part of the state educational system, ''Secretaria do Estado de São Paulo.''

Notable alumni

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- pioneer aviator, * Antonio Ferreira Cesarino Junior - jurist, physician, economist and university professor at the (

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and at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, *

Regina Duarte Regina Blois Duarte (born 5 February 1947) is a Brazilian actress who briefly served as Special Secretary of Culture, a cabinet position in President Jair Bolsonaro's federal administration, from March to May 2020. Political activities Her effo ...

- TV actress, *

Fausto Silva Fausto Corrêa da Silva (born May 3, 1950) commonly known as Faustão (literally Big Fausto), is a Brazilian television presenter. He is best known as the host of long-running Sunday afternoon show '' Domingão do Faustão'', which premiered in ...

- TV showman, *

Renato M.E. Sabbatini Renato Marcos Endrizzi Sabbatini (born 20 February 1947, Campinas) is a retired professor at the Department of Biomedical Engineering and at the State University of Campinas Institute of Biology. He received a B.Sc. in Biomedical Sciences from M ...

- scientist and professor, *

Marcelo Damy Marcelo Damy de Sousa Santos (July 14, 1914 – November 29, 2009) was a Brazilian physicist. Considered as one of the most important educators and researchers in physics in Brazil, along with Cesar Lattes, José Leite Lopes and Mario Schenbe ...

- physicist and university professor ( USP and

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References

External links

Official website, Friends of Culto à Ciência Association
In Portuguese.

- about the school, with photographs and documents, in Portuguese. {{DEFAULTSORT:Colegio Culto a Ciencia Schools in Brazil Education in Campinas Educational institutions established in 1869 1869 establishments in Brazil Organisations based in Campinas