Private teaching and its advertising in the Cádiz de las cortes (1810-1813)

Abstract

This article highlights how a good part of Cadiz society at the time asks for a complementary education that serves, in turn, to expand knowledge that goes beyond the official model offered by the institutions. Starting from the base of the undeniable effort to ensure compulsory basic education, already legislated in the Constitution of 1812, and whose most immediate precedent is found in the enlightened reforms of the late eighteenth century, we will see how private initiative will be the one that will try to cover these shortcomings. Naturally, it will be the wealthy strata, capable of paying for it, who will bet on this initiative, while we observe how a series of disciplines, given the basically mercantile characteristics of Cádiz, will be increasingly demanded with more interest, in the case of language teaching. or new techniques related to business studies. Regardless of all this, there will be no shortage of families who, privately, will continue to request the corresponding complementary educational care for their members. (stems).