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Hostos, Educator of America

Anonyme, Friday, April 4, 2003 - 15:24
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Angel L. Martinez

Eugenio Maria de Hostos, Puerto Rican man of letters, remains, 100 years after his passing, an important and necessary influence on education for Latin Americans.

Recently, the London-based publisher Routledge has issued "Fifty Major Thinkers on Education: From Confucius to Dewey" (Joy A. Palmer, ed., 2001). The fifty are described in a chapter each as having had an impact on pedagogy from 500 BCE to the 20th century. One of them spent his life advancing liberation through his writings and practice in the field of education throughout the Western Hemisphere. Alongside Augustine of Hippo, Ibn Tufayl, Al Ghazzali, Mohandas K. Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore, Jane Addams, Anna Julia Haywood Cooper and WEB Du Bois, there is Eugenio María de Hostos, the Puerto Rican sociologist, philosopher, poet, jurist and champion of Latin American and Caribbean liberation.

In including him among the 50, Hostos is recognized in part for his broad impact on America (Hostos, as have other Latin American anti-colonialists, used “America


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