A review of textbooks during the

last century
Millions of Spanish children were educated with the editions of Calleja,
Dalmá u, Vives or Santiago Rodríguez// In a single volume everything that
our schoolchildren study today was summarized in a dozen thick texts
The "p" with the "a", pa. The "t" with the "o", to. Duck. Thus, with the classic
syllabaries and catones, joining the letters of the alphabet, our grandparents
learned to read. Today these manuals are books for nostalgia and collector's
items for lovers of old school books.
The Children's Catón , edited by the famous Saturnino Calleja, was one of
those manuals that back in the 1930s helped our grandparents learn to read.
Under the motto of "instructing by delighting" he used a pleasant and colorful
iconographic system that made it easier for children to learn to read.
Similar to Calleja's cató n was the First Book , the work of Professor Joaquín
Pla Gargol, published back in 1950, by Dalmá u Carles. It was used as an
introductory manual to the art of reading for many adults, with classic
syllabic constructions such as: I love my mom-I love my mom and My mom
loves me. Its didactic objectives also included developing attention,
observation and the first notions of calculation.
A few years later, in the 1960s, the legendary Rayas notebooks would arrive,
by Á ngel Rodríguez Á lvarez, from Editorial Sá nchez Rodrigo. They ranged
from the classic syllabary to more advanced primers, with series of words to
exercise the use of letters, such as Kilo, kepis, kiosco, kadí and kabila, in the
case of the letter K.
Without a doubt, one of the most successful manuals in post-war teaching
was the Álvarez Encyclopedia . Written by a Zamorano teacher, Antonio
Á lvarez, it was a textbook in the primary education stage of eight million
Spanish children, from 1954 to 1966. Its more than one hundred editions
guarantee the enormous teaching success that it had in its time.
Although one is not a grandparent yet, the copy that we keep from second
grade, that we studied from beginning to end when we took admission, back
in 1964, corresponds to the 114th edition. The subjects it condensed ranged
from Sacred History to Natural Sciences, passing through the Gospels,
Spanish Language, Arimetics, Geometry, Geography and History of Spain. It
also included parts dedicated to political-social training for children,
commemorative lessons, family and social training, political training for girls
and school commemorations.
In that singular section appeared, among others, the exaltation of the cross,
on September 14; Christ the King, the last Sunday of October; information
day, November 29; martyrs of Tradition, March 10, or Pope's Day, June 29.
The author, Antonio Á lvarez, recognized, not long ago, "that he would not
write the history of Spain for the censors again," but he insisted on the
correctness of his method compared to the dense and expensive books of
current education. An argument that many of today's parents and
grandparents would subscribe to, a time in which the educational level is
worsening by leaps and bounds, where school effort is not prioritized and
grades are passed "by the way." Something that, year after year, is evidenced
by the educational statistics of the European Union.
El parvulito was another of the school manuals written by Professor Antonio
Á lvarez, which after passing the censorship of the time back in 1955,
received approval in January 1958 from the National Council of Education for
its use in Primary Schools.
Its objective, as the author indicated in the prologue, was to serve as a link
between the primer or reading method and the encyclopedia itself for those
children who came to reading hesitantly and to avoid the abrupt transition
between one and the other.
With 116 pages, simple illustrations and written with careful calligraphy, the
work of the author himself, it consisted of 54 lessons, with topics ranging
from God the creator, in the first lesson, to Franco and José Antonio, in the
last, passing through The three kingdoms of nature, the cardinal points, the
province. The Golden Age, ants, the human body or Ramó n y Cajal.
The intermediate-grade Cyclical Pedagogical Encyclopedia for primary
schooling, by Professor José Dalmá u, is another classic manual widely used in
the 1940s. A dense compendium of 650 pages that covered everything from
the Spanish Language to Sacred History, along with Arithmetic, Geometry,
Geography, History of Spain, Physics, Chemistry, History, Natural History,
Physiology, Hygiene, Industry, Agriculture and Commerce, without fail. social
education and notions of morality.
In the 1950s, the Dalmá u Carles publishing house Pla also released the
handwritten school reading book Europa . It includes an extensive trip
through Europe in which, in addition to helping the student distinguish
different types of writing, it illustrated the different countries of the old
continent.
Dalmá u is also The First Manuscript , another classic reading manual from the
60s. Like the abridged school editions of Don Quixote, such as that of Luis
Vives or the Sons of Santiago Rodríguez, a classic text that schoolchildren no
longer read today.
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Historical catalog of free digital SEP textbooks from 1960 to

2011
Nostalgia is one of the characteristics that always accompanies us Mexicans, saying that the previous has
always been and will be better is a phrase that accompanies us forever. But if he told you that the books you
had in your childhood and with which you lived in your primary education are back, those phrases make
more sense.

The National Commission for Free Textbooks has posted on its internet platform the historical catalog of the
covers and contents of primary education books that covers a period from the 60's to our time. On this
platform you can take a step back in time and consult the texts that accompanied you in your learning since
you were little.

Since 1959, during the presidency of Adolfo López Mateos, CONALITEG has been in charge of distributing
free study books to students in the Mexican Republic , books with a characteristic smell that excites children
during the beginning of the school year and lessons that many of us keep in our memories with so much
longing.
And to get rid of that nostalgia, we invite you to visit the digital platform that CONALITEG has put online so
that you can relive those titles with which you lived in the classrooms. On the platform you only have to
indicate the year in which you started your primary education so that it will display the bibliographic titles
from 1st to 6th.

I hope you can tell us about your experience reliving this moment in your student life.

Link | Free digital SEP textbooks from 1960 to 2011

Historical catalog of free textbooks 1960 - 2017.: National Commission for Free Textbooks CONALITEG:.
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