Reformer Jose Pedro Varela's 1877 Law of Common Education made Uruguay one of the first countries in the Americas to guarantee free, compulsory and secular public education, a system that still shapes Uruguayan schooling today.
Record no. MRB-2026-007111
Pioneer of Free, Compulsory, Secular Education
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