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According to the Constitution of Guatemala, education is compulsory and free in public schools for the initial, primary and secondary levels. There is a five-tier system of education starting with primary school, followed by secondary school and tertiary education, depending on the level of technical training. [1][2]
Olimpia Altuve was born in Quetzaltenango in 1892. She graduated from the Instituto Normal para Señoritas de Occidente with a highschool diploma in Science and Arts and as a Primary Education Teacher. She then began studying at Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala (back then still called Universidad Nacional Estrada Cabrera).
Website. www.usac.edu.gt. The Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala (USAC, University of San Carlos of Guatemala) is the largest and oldest university of Guatemala; it is also the fourth founded in the Americas. Established in the Kingdom of Guatemala during the Spanish colony, it was the only university in Guatemala until 1954, [a] although ...
Eduardo Suger. Eduardo Suger Cofiño (November 29, 1938) is a Swiss-born Guatemalan physicist, scholar, educator, and politician. [1][2][3] He is one of the founders of Galileo University in Guatemala City and of the Suger Montano Institute. [1][4][5] Suger was the first Central American to receive his PhD in physics. [6]
A teacher works with a Kʼicheʼ student at her school in Santa Cruz del Quiché, Quiché, Guatemala. Intercultural bilingual education in Guatemala was begun as part of a 20th-century educational reform effort intended to promote the country's cultural diversity. The programs merge Mayan language and culture with Spanish language and Ladino ...
Sergio Custodio. Sergio Alfredo Custodio Contreras (January 7, 1947 – July 24, 2020) was a professor, writer and Humanist dedicated to Philosophy in Guatemala. Among his best-known works are textbooks on formal, inductive and analytical Logic, in addition to his books on Epistemology. He has abundant publications for the diffusion of ...
Nun, poet, writer. Sister Juana de la Concepción (born Juana de Maldonado y Paz in 1598 in Santiago de Guatemala; died 1666 in Santiago de Guatemala) was a Guatemalan nun, writer, and poet. She is considered one of the most interesting and controversial figures in Santiago de Guatemala (then the capital of the Captaincy General of Guatemala ...
Próspero Morales (31 December 1856 - 17 August 1898) was a Guatemalan lawyer who served as Secretary of Infrastructure, War and Public Instruction during José María Reina Barrios administration. Two year after being in office, Morales married the well known Guatemalan teacher Natalia Górriz. Morales resigned as Secretary on 5 March 1897 in ...