No basta, que haya educación, sino que es preciso, que sea buena. Una propuesta para la enseñanza de primeras letras de Valladolid, a finales del Antiguo Régimen

Abstract

We meet face with an unpublished brief written written by the attorney general (Procurador del Común) of Valladolid to the town hall, the intention is to promote a reform in the elementary education. This texts affects in the social importance of the general education of the first letters and connects this illustrated (erudite) use of the education with the decadent situation of Valladolid to demographic, economic and social level. His arguments allow us to know the situation of the instruction of this level in Valladolid and the offer of his author which is not other than to reguest the presence of a religious order not established in the city. It not seemed the best project when, after the expulsion of the jesuitas the expelled ones cry out even against the large number of expelled but he doesn’t doubt that it will be the most suitable thing.