Simón Rodríguez (b. Caracas, Venezuela, October 28, 1769 - m. Amotape District, Peru, February 28, 1854), known in his exile from English America as Samuel Robinson was a great philosopher and educator Venezuela, one of the greatest of his time, tutor and mentor to Simon Bolivar.
Simón Rodríguez was born in Caracas on the night of October 28, 1769. He was baptized on November 14 of that year as foundling. Raised home of the priest Alejandro Carreño, making him his name and is known as Simón Rodríguez Carreño. Contemporaneous documents and other evidence suggest that the priest was indeed the father of Simon Rodriguez and his brother José Cayetano Carreño, four years younger than him and who was developed as a notable musician. His mother was the daughter Rosalia Rodriguez owned farms and livestock, a descendant of Canary Islanders.
In May 1791, the Cabildo de Caracas given a professorship at the School of Reading and Writing for Children "in 1794 presented a critical writing," Reflections on the flaws that vitiate the school of first letters Caracas and means of achieving its reform by a new establishment. " This school has the opportunity to be the guardian of the future Liberator Simón Bolívar. Heavily influenced by Emile Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Simón Rodríguez developed a revolutionary conception of what should be the educational model of the nascent American nations. Bolivar himself in a letter to General Santander in 1824 said that her teacher "taught having fun." This spirit was trying to break the rigid English colonial educational practices be reflected in all the work and the thought of Simón Rodríguez.
Your participation in the conspiracy of Gual and Spain against of the English crown in 1797 forces him to leave Venezuela. Another important work was The Liberator of the South of America and co-Arms (1830), a claim on the social struggle Bolívar undertook at that time.
In the final years of his life he taught at various schools in Quito and Guayaquil (Ecuador), due to a fire that hit this city, much of his work was turned to ashes.
In the year 1853 begins its final journey to Peru next to his son Joseph, and Camilo Gomez, a fellow of it. Gomez assists in his death, in the village of Amotape. His remains were transferred seventy years after the cemetery in Peru and then to his home in Caracas where lie today in the National Cemetery since 1954.
Arturo Uslar Pietri wrote a fictionalized biography of Simón Rodríguez, published in 1981: Island of Robinson.
English America is original, must be original and government institutions, and original means of either form. Either we invent or we err. Simon Rodriguez For a more united and Region Scout! 2011, 75 YEARS OF SCOUTING of Aragua. Green Line 2011: 3000 Trees ... will you score?
February 26 in the spaces of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - Las Delicias was held commemorating the birthday of Baden Powell in 154 anniversary with the assistance of more than 60 scoutsdearagua which served to remind our founder.
This event served as an opportunity to decorate Aragua Scouts with Scout Spirit bars, persevarancia knots in gold, and bronze to all those young adults who have maintained a continuous and exemplary work within the region. Congratulations
Advanced Scout Groups to Baden Powell, Libertador, Antonio Jose de Sucre, Marino, Independence, Mafeking, Orion, Levi whom were recognized for their assistance and were able to share a video in memory of our founder Baden Powell like to sing birthday a cake to our Founder BP.
Thanks to those attending this celebration, we go forward to building a better world in the celebration of 75 years of Aragua Region. Cesar Sanchez
Region Communications Assistant Aragua
For a more united and Region Scout! 2011, 75 YEARS OF SCOUTING of Aragua. Green Line 2011: 3000 Trees ... will you score?
February 22, 1857 - 154 years of the birth of Baden Powell Powell Firm Commitments
"If you have the habit of taking things with joy, you rarely find in difficult circumstances."
Robert Baden-Powell
born in London, England, on February 22, 1857. His father was the Reverend HG Baden-Powell, a professor at Oxford. His mother was the daughter of British Admiral Smyth WT. His maternal grandfather, Joseph Brewer Smyth, had gone to America as a colonist in New Jersey, but had returned to England shipwrecked on his way back. Baden-Powell was, therefore, the descendant of a religious one hand, an adventurer and colonizer of the New World on the other.
His father died when Robert was about three years old, leaving his mother with seven children, most with fewer than fourteen years of age. Often suffered hardships, but the mutual love of the mother for their children and the mother always brought forward. Robert lived a charmed life outdoors in the company of his brothers, hiking and camping with them in many parts of England.
In 1870 he obtained a scholarship to Charterhouse School, London. It was not a distinguished student, but one of the most active. It was always the center of everything sounded as happened in the schoolyard, and soon gained fame as a goalkeeper in the football team Charterhouse. His acting skills were highly appreciated by his schoolmates, each time you are required to do so, his performance was enchanted the entire school.
At 19 he graduated from Charterhouse, and immediately accepted the opportunity to go to India as a lieutenant in the regiment that had formed the right wing of the cavalry became famous in the Crimean War.
excellent addition to providing military services to age of twenty years and was captain, won the most coveted trophy in sports throughout India in the hunt for boar, armed with a short spear as their only weapon.
In 1887 BP was in Africa taking part in the campaign against the Zulus, and later against the fierce tribes of Ashanti and wild Matabele warriors. The natives came to respect him so much that, by his courage, his Scout skills and his uncanny ability to stalk, he was given the name "Impeesa" which means "Wolf that never sleeps."
difficulties were piling up in South Africa. Relations between the British government and the republic of Transvaal is had broken. A Baden-Powell was ordered to form two battalions of mounted rifles, and go with them to Mafeking, a town in the heart of South Africa.
war broke out, and after 217 days, from October 13, 1889, BP defended Mafeking, resisting the siege against much larger forces, until his reinforcements arrived on 18 May 1900.
Great Britain had been in abeyance for these long months, when finally received the news that he had achieved the desired objective, BP was elevated to the rank of Major General and became the hero of his countrymen.
In 1901, a hero of men and boys, returned from Africa to England to be full of honors and discover with surprise that his personal popularity had spread to his book "Aids to Scouting" (Aids to Scouting) to the army, and was being used as book text in schools for boys. for BP This was a great opportunity. He realized that here was his chance to help the boys of his country to become strong young men. If a book about Scouting, written for men, they had attracted, the more they attract one written for them!
He set to work compiling his experiences in India and Africa between the Zulus and other savage tribes. It was a special library and read everything about the education of boys through history from Spartan boys, former British and Indian Redskins today. BP
developed slowly and carefully the idea of \u200b\u200bScouting, he wanted to be sure it would work. So in the summer of 1907 led a group of twenty boys to Brownsea Island, in the Channel, the first Scout camp that the world watched. The camp was a great success.
And then in the early months of 1908, published in four installments biweekly and illustrated by himself, his "Training Manual: Scouting for Boys ", not even dream that this book would be the engine that would implement a system that boys would hit the world. He had not finished Scouting for Boys appear in the windows of bookstores and posts magazines, when they had begun to form Scout Troops Patrol and not only in England but also in other countries.
The Movement grew and grew, by 1910 had reached such proportions that BP realized that Scouting was to be his work. He had the vision and faith to recognize that he could do more for his country by educating the emerging generation for their boys to become good citizens, to train men to become good soldiers.
therefore resigned from the army, which already held the rank of Lieutenant General, and embarked on its second life, life of service to the world through Scouting. She picked up her award in the growth of Scouting and love and respect you guys were all around the world.
In 1912 he traveled around the world to hear the Scouts from many countries. They were the beginning of World Brotherhood. World War came and stopped for a while this job, but at the end of the resumed hostilities. In 1920, Scouts from around the world are gathered in London in the first international meeting: the First World Jamboree. The last night of the Jamboree, Aug. 6, BP was proclaimed World Chief Scout by an enthusiastic crowd of boys.
Scouting continued to grow. The day the movement turned its twenty-first anniversary, its members had reached the figure of two million, distributed in almost all civilized nations. At that time, BP was honored by King George V making the title Baron of Lord Baden-Powell of Gilwell. However, for all Scouts will always BP World Chief Scout.
For a more united and Region Scout! 2011, 75 YEARS OF SCOUTING of Aragua. Green Line 2011: 3000 Trees ... will you score?
