Sud Menucci (January 20, 1892 — July 22, 1948) was a Brazilian

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and

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, who was a strong proponent of quality in

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in his country. The municipality of

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has been named in his honor. Mennucci was born in

Piracicaba Piracicaba ( or ) is a city located in the Brazilian state of São Paulo. The population is 407,252 (2020) in an area of 1378.07 km². It is at an elevation of 547 m above sea level. Name The place name comes from a word in the Tupi langua ...

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. In 1910 he started his career as a

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in a rural school. In 1913 he moved to

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, in the state of

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, invited to reorganize the Escolas de Aprendizes de Marinheiros de Belém do Pará until 1914. Back to São Paulo, he continued to work as a teacher in the cities of

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and São Paulo City. In 1920, he was the coordinator of the school

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of the state, which led the reorganization of the state secretary of education into 15 regional offices. Briefly after that, he was appointed as the director of the regional office of

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. Mennucci's career as a journalist started in 1925. Until 1931, he worked as an editor and

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at the

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. In that year, he was promoted to the general directorship of the state secretary of education of the state of São Paulo. He was also very active, beginning 1930, in the creation of the Centro do Professorado Paulista, one of the main teacher's associations in the state. He was its president between 1931 and 1948. He was the author of ''A Crise Brasileira da Educação'' (The Brazilian Educational Crisis), which received an award by the Academia Brasileira de Educação (Brazilian Academy of Education). He died in

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, aged 56.

External links

Biography of Sud Mennucci
(In Portuguese) Menucci Menucci Menucci People from Piracicaba 1892 births 1948 deaths 20th-century journalists {{Brazil-journalist-stub ro:Sud Mennucci