Las propuestas educativas libertarias de José Cabrera Díaz

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to explain the operational guidelines of the Canarian workers movement in the early Twentieth Century in connection with integral educational proposals. For this purpose, we have taken advantage of the articles published in the press by on of the leading exponents of the movement, a member of the anarchist school of thought, José Cabrera Diaz, whose curriculum vitae indicates his importance. He was a journalist, trades union leader and an outand- out defender of rationalist education and of the creation of people's schools, the purpose of which was to eradicate —by combating illiteracy and ignorance— the abusive quasi-feudal practices of the «caciques» that existed in the Canarian Archipiélago.