Simón Rodríguez

Simón Rodríguez ( pseudonym of Samuel Robinson) ( born October 28, 1769 in Caracas, † February 28, 1854 in Amotape, Peru ) was a Venezuelan educator, philosopher, Utopian socialist and tutor, friend and collaborator of Simón Bolívar.

As of 1791 teachers in Caracas, he published in 1794 a first school critical writing. Involved in a conspiracy against the Spanish crown, he had to leave Venezuela in 1797.

Under the name of Samuel Robinson, he lived in Jamaica, the United States, France and traveled in 1804 with Simón Bolívar Europe. From 1806 on he lived in Italy, Germany, Poland and Russia. He worked there as industrial workers and teachers. From 1823 under his birth name in Colombia, he is appointed by Bolívar in 1824 to the " Director of Education, Science and Art" in the Bolivian Republic. By the end of his life he remained active as a teacher in various South American countries, and the author of numerous writings on pedagogy, of which, however, a large part in a fire in 1896 in Guayaquil ( Ecuador) was lost. In his works, Simón Rodríguez called for a social economic order, a classless society as well as access of all groups to schools and educational institutions.

• Venezuelan
• Philosopher of the early modern period
• Philosopher (19th Century )
• Teacher (19th century)
• Simón Bolívar
• Born in 1769
• Died in 1854
• Man