L'enseignement secondaire dans le cadre du “Pombalisme”

Abstract

The birth of the Portuguese school system can be situated during Pombal's reform of education. The process did not happen in isolation. Besides the Companhia de Jesus' high schools, which were extinguished, there were private colleges for the teaching of Latin, Greek and Rhetoric. Students had to pay a fee and used facilities in teachers' homes. What place did Pombal bestow to these disciplines and to the new colleges? Which models were adopted? Kenneth Maxwell, Marques de Pombal, paradoxo do iluminismo (Rio de Janeiro, 1996), p. 96. The contents of the first step of Pombal's reform stretched from 1759 to 1769. After the closing of the colleges of the Companhia de Jesus and of Evora University, the birth of high school education started with the foundation of feeless schools of Latin, Greek and Rhetoric, in order to secure a medium level of instruction and preparation for university education. The reform included another branch of education: a School of Commerce (Lisbon), and a School of Navigation and Dr...