Teacher's Day Ecuadorian

Teacher's Day Ecuadorian is celebrated every year on April 13, it is a special date that pays tribute to all persons performing this task of being educators, teaching many people from an early age with a lot of effort for that that education, good people leave.

This commemorative date is set in 1920, under the government of Alfredo Baquerizo Moreno, and was instituted in honor Juen Fiallos Montalvo, who was a teacher and Ecuadorian novelist, born on April 13, 1832, in the city of Ambato.

On this date the memory of civic celebrations dedicated to the teachers of the different levels of education, remembrances also joined by the birthdays of Juan Montalvo (1832), Mary Gamarra de Hidalgo (1846) and Quintilian Sanchez (1848).

The Feast of the Ecuadorian Master established the May 29, 1920 the President of the Republic, Dr. Alfredo Baquerizo Moreno, another benchmark for the community values ​​in its real dimension honest and selfless work of educators.

Juan Montalvo, a formidable debater, pamphleteer, journalist and writer from Ambato, visionary and always showed a fighting spirit, because from very young was identified with the cause of political freedom of his people. He died in Paris, France, in 1889.

Luis Felipe Borja Perez, lawyer, state councilor, deputy, senator and rector of the Central University, was born in Quito on February 20, 1845 and died on this day in 1912. Studies wrote the Chilean Civil Code. He was active in institutions.

Maria Gamarra de Hidalgo dedicated his life to the noble causes of social justice and democracy. He helped entrench the principles of liberalism.

He was born on April 13, 1846 in Baba, Los Rios current jurisdiction. He died in May 1916.