Ángel Quintero Alfaro (October 19, 1916 – May 13, 1992) was an educator, an essayist and a former Puerto Rico Secretary of Education.

Early days

Born on October 19, 1916, in

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. He attended his first grades of school in his hometown. He entered the

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, where he completed a bachelor's degree in mathematics and physics in 1937. Quintero Alfaro completed his master's in education and social sciences at the

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in 1943. In 1949 he was appointed Fellow at the

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Education career

For some years he worked as a teacher in San Germán and Manatí. In 1948 he returned to Chicago and completed his doctorate in 1949. The University of Chicago promoted theories of general education. From 1950 to 1958 he served as dean of the Faculty of General Studies. Was appointed by Puerto Rico Governor

Luis Muñoz Marín José Luis Alberto Muñoz Marín (February 18, 1898April 30, 1980) was a Puerto Rican journalist, politician, statesman and was the first elected governor of Puerto Rico, regarded as the "Architect of the Puerto Rico Commonwealth." In 1948 he ...

undersecretary of the Department of Instruction, a position he held from 1961 to 1964. In 1965 new governor

Roberto Sánchez Vilella Roberto Sánchez Vilella (19 February 1913 – 24 March 1997) was the governor of Puerto Rico from 1965 to 1969. Sánchez Vilella successfully ran for governor in the 1964 elections for the ''Popular Democratic Party of Puerto Rico, Partido Po ...

, appointed him secretary until 1968.

Death

Quintero died during a trip to

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on May 13, 1992.

Legacy

A middle school in Morovis was named posthumously after Ángel Quintero Alfaro.

References

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