Teacher's Day in Venezuela

On January 15 we celebrate Teacher's Day in Venezuela


Venezuela celebrates the January 15 National Teacher's Day, decreed by the General Isaias Medina Angarita in recognition of the struggles initiated by Venezuelan Masters on January 15, 1932, when in full gomecista dictatorship, a group of educators formed a partnership to defend labor rights of teachers and improve education in Venezuela.

 The SVMIP began working for the improvement of education in Venezuela that had a high illiteracy, founding the "Educational Magazine" divulging organ guild and in 1934 held a seminar to discuss the shortcomings of the education system in the country. Gomez's government did not like the actions of teachers, which is why the Ministry of Education ordered teachers to separate from the SVMIP.

Teachers continued fighting in hiding for the development of Venezuelan education, until the death of dictator Juan Vicente Gomez in 1936, when a national assembly of teachers in the Venezuelan Federation of Teachers was founded was called. During the government of General Isaías Medina Angarita, the FVM directed his efforts toward modernization of education and improvements in the conditions of educators and recognized the importance of its work decreeing the celebration of Teachers' Day on January 15 of each year . Between 1949 and 1958, during the dictatorship of General Marcos Perez Jimenez, it decreases the action of the teachers' movement and in 1952 the date of the Teacher's Day is changed to November 29, the date of the birth of Andres Bello, as a tribute who guide the education of the Liberator Simon Bolivar. From 1959, after the fall of the Perez Jimenez dictatorship, he was retaken the date that was initially fixed by Medina Angarita in 1952 and which currently pays homage to the Venezuelan teachers.