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During the revolutionary and independence period of the early nineteenth century, Colombians, like many other Latin Americans, committed themselves to creating a national education system despite the extraordinary obstacles they faced. In the 1820s, the new national government implemented its Enlightenment vision of universal education: schooling for at least two years for all Colombians, regardless of race, class, or gender. Many obstacles frustrated that plan: meager finances, deficient infrastructure, elite resistance, local hostility to centralization and secularization, and entrenched racism. |
