Don Andres Manjon Manjon
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Sargentes born in the Lora on November 30, 1846 son of Lino and Sebastiana Manjarrez, a family of humble origin. Is educated by his uncle, pastor of Sergeant, and his mother, who induced him to go to school and receive basic education. Although he did not want to go to school, always showed great qualities for the study, which his parents and his uncle saw and decided to guide his steps toward the priesthood. So in summer of 1858, Andrew began studying Latin. Those were difficult years due to the harshness with which teachers applied to him, so that Andrew was tempted to turn to the field.
However, in 1861, his uncle takes him to the seminary of Burgos, where after much work and fighting, than the first course with excellent grades. His subsequent studies were in Philosophy and Law, also a magnificent result.
At age 26, after graduating, get to Valladolid, where he teaches a short time. At the University Salamanca took the Chair of Roman Law. In 1874 comes to Madrid to San Isidro College and continued his studies at the Academy of Jurisprudence and Legislation. In 1878, opposition wins by the Chair of Ecclesiastical Discipline at the University of Santiago de Compostela. In 1880, after a vacancy, we attach the same Chair at the University of Granada, a city in which live the rest of his days.
is elected by the Chapter of the Abbey of Monte Sacro to give the subject of canon law and then decided to aim for the priesthood. On June 19, 1885 was ordained a priest and was appointed canon of the Abbey.
The principle of the Ave Maria School was thus: He had been in my mind for years the idea of \u200b\u200bputting schools in the country, and while walking around Granada for my growing desire, especially when in 1886 I went up to the Sacro-Monte Canon and slowly saw those roads, and caves cármenes ... .
More behold, a day that fell on my ass meek, for college, I heard humming surprised Christian Doctrine in a cave that fell on the road, and I feel excited.
descended on the donkey, climbed up the sidewalk and found myself in a cave a vulgar little woman, surrounded by ten little girls, some of whom were Roma. Then I was ashamed I had not done what even the woman who had left the hospice was doing "That woman was named
Francisca Montiel Jimenez. Taking this Master as a tool for their plans, asked her to get off the road, a cave with part of the house, the cost for 4.50 pesetas a month, it provided food, and decided to raise the girls to hear Mass on holy days in the Church of Sacro-Monte, where he explained to them the Gospel and gave catechism lesson. Having retired Master
, D. Andrew, with the lesson, decided to continue his work, saying that the poor had taught him more than all the sages and all the books and bought a Carmen or garden at the foot of the cave house, sought a Master title, and opened a formal school on October 1, 1889, solemnly inaugurated on the day of the Virgen del Pilar. Taking this day as the official date of the Foundation. D. Andrew was a humble man dedicated to his children, both in life and in death received special honors that humbly refused or gave no importance. In 1895 he was proposed for the post of shortening of the Apostolic Nuncio: D. Andrew apologized humbly accept it. Right there
Schools founded Ave Maria, his major work, which they spent all their money, their commitment and time. Don Andrés Manjón there began his revolutionary work with new teaching methods. Marian bird
The project took him to his hometown. In 1918 there were schools of the Ave-Maria in 36 English provinces. Throughout his life, he opened about 400 schools worldwide. He founded also the "Teacher Workshop" to train future managers of schools Ave-Maria: The commented "there is no school without a teacher" D. Andrés Manjón attached great importance to the training of teachers, the teacher said it could be character-forming or deforming. The opening of the seminar for teachers was held on 12 October 1905. It was a work very dear to him.
During the first years of their stay Granada wrote a treatise on Canon Law, considered one of the best of his era. Write to throughout his life, many pedagogical works in the service of education and of his priestly ministry, with a style devoid of frills, no fanfare of a scholar. All are full of simplicity and clarity. In 1900 he was appointed
Favorite Son of Granada and in 1909 Son of the province of Burgos. His humility does not attend any of these acts. Don Andrés deserved praise as the responsible person, simple and serious in his youth, he taught conscientious and humble and exemplary priest. His sober personality, made the honors paid him alive, they should not do Nick in it.
Don Andres died on 10 July 1923 and is buried in a single crypt in the chapel of the Motherhouse of the Ave-Maria. On his tombstone are written the letters "AM" to initial humble and simple life. At home mom is his personal museum with everything related to it, tunics, etc. Graduate Teaching Methods
age and free primary education .- Andrés Manjón understood the need for the classes were divided by age, because the knowledge of the children were different. This stated that improved education and save time and effort of teachers, which could guide their classes to a specific level, thereby improving performance and learning of children. As for free education, Andrés Manjón believes that nothing should be charged, or poor or rich, in the first lesson and adds a way to educate in their schools.
Teaching in nature .- One of the main values \u200b\u200bthat Andrew was in his cármenes Manjón was the possibility they provide for the education of children surrounded by nature. It would thus take advantage of every space cármenes for a grandstand for the delivery of outdoor classes and to develop what he called "educational puppet," a series of games that tried to adapt those made by children for educational purposes, directing them to different subjects: History, Geography, Mathematics. Teachers
.- The Seminar was inaugurated in 1905 as Teachers Seminar in order to train young people who aspired to the profession, with a syllabus for himself and a boarding school for some of the distant origin youth. In this seminar out most of the teachers who served in the Ave Maria School of Granada, but also the rest of Spain and Latin America, which is an extensive educational and humanitarian work, because its constitution is always held in places disadvantaged. Pedagogical Games
.- The game is one of the main aspects of pedagogy manjoniana. Although not the creator of this concept, able to develop dramatically in the Ave Maria School, which raises the child's need, especially the toddler, teach playing, theory implanted in those activities that are susceptible to it, helping with this understanding and greater retention of matter in the mind of the child.
would build on the squares of cármenes, using traditional local materials: Granada and brick paving clay, besides being inexpensive materials were used by artisans in these neighborhoods. The most prominent are the games on maps with Andrew Manjón taught geography as a science that had to be learned through experimentation by the child. With the use of maps that could draw cut and fill.
