Agustín Nieto Caballero (1889–1975)
[José Paz Rodríguez (2021). Agustín Nieto Caballero (1889–1975) ''Padres Y Maestros / Journal of Parents and Teachers'' 387: 67–72. ] was a Colombian
pedagogue
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who, in 1914, founded
Gimnasio Moderno, a prestigious a private all-male traditional and liberal, primary and secondary school located in Bogotá, Colombia. It was founded in 1914 by various Colombians following the leading initiative of Agustín Nieto Caballero and co-founders José María Samper Brush, Daniel Samper Ortega, Tomás Rueda Vargas, and Ricardo Lleras Codazzi, freethinkers. The school is considered to be the oldest
new school
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in
South America
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at a time when education was dominated by the Church-ruled Catholic schools.
References
1889 births
1975 deaths
Ambassadors of Colombia to Chile
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