Abstract

GREISING, Carolina. Secular State debate: radical secularism and a proposed state monopoly of education. Pág. Educ. [online]. 2013, vol.6, n.2, pp.97-118. ISSN 1688-7468.

In 1927, in the city of Buenos Aires, the book Los dogmas, la enseñanza y el Estado (Dogmas, Teaching and State) was published. It was written by Julio César Grauert and Pedro Ceruti Crosa, two young figures from the radical wing of the political sector known as "batllismo". The polemic over the book's content aroused controversy yet again about education, one of the most sensitive issues regarding the secularization of the country. Among other topics, it was proposed that the State would have the monopoly over Primary Education, with the consequence of the abolition of the academic freedom and the parents’ rights to decide about their children’s education, as well as a reform in family and society. Part of the opposition parties said the book was “the batllicomunista plan” for education due to its radical statements. Given this controversial view of the book, this article aims to analyze certain components of the radical secularism in relation to the kind of education that the book proposes, and expresses the political ideology of its authors

Keywords : education; Catholicism; State monopoly over education; secularization.

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