Education in Guatemala

Abstract

IN 1943 the U.S. Office of Education undertook the preparation of a series of basic studies on education in a number of Central and South American countries under the sponsorship of the Interdepartmental Committee on Scientific and Cultural Co-operation. The studies were begun to promote understanding of educational conditions in the American countries and to encourage co-operation in the field of interAmerican education. "Education in Guatemala"is based on data gathered by Cameron D. Ebaugh in 1944 and 1945 and supplemented since by documentary study. Published in 1947, exactly a hundred years after Guatemala became a republic, this well-documented account of the state of education in the second largest and most populous of the Central American republics shows how the original method of education by religious indoctrination to limited numbers is now slowly giving way to a system of liberal education for all (Washington, D.C. : Gov. Printing Office).