By Michael Aaron Rockland
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento (1811-1888), Argentine educator, statesman, and author, self-educated after the version of Benjamin Franklin, was once "not a guy yet a nation," within the phrases of Mrs. Horace Mann. Like De Tocqueville, this striking guy visited the us in its early years and wrote a close account of this new phenomenon.
Full of intelligent social remark and particular vignettes of the the US of this period-of Boston, for example, the place Sarmiento met the Horace Manns and later Emerson and Longfellow-Travels may still take its position one of the very important commentaries at the usa written over the last century by way of international viewers. Professor Rockland's introductory essay presents the wider context within which Travels needs to be visible: its position in Sarmiento's lifestyles and profession and its value as testimony to forgotten traces of effect among North and South America.
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Almost all of Mary Mann's letters to Sarmiento are unpublished (five are published in the Obras) and are to be found, together with several letters from other Americans to Sarmiento, in this folder in Buenos Aires, hereafter cited as MMF. When the Sarmiento Museum was created in 1938, the letters were moved there and now make up the greater part of the archives. «2 Letter of May 31, 1866, Boletin de la Academia Argentina de Letras, iv, No. 14 (1936), 301. The great majority of Sarmiento's letters to Mary Mann are published in the Boletin, in seven installments: Vol.
Ambas Americas, a magazine he published in New York during these years, was his chief vehicle for keeping in contact with educators throughout the hemisphere. The magazine went through four numbers50 and then died when Sarmiento returned to Argentina, but while it lasted it received considerable support throughout the Americas, including a subscription for two hundred copies from President Juarez of Mexico. The magazine contained letters from American educators and concerned itself particularly with the current controversy over a national office of education in the United States.
From this you may infer that the name of Mr. 58 During the period between Sarmiento's visit to West Newton and Mann's death in 1859 there is evidence of some communication between them. In Escuelas Sar"One does not find himself every day at the foot of the statue of a man you have known when alive, one who could be called your friend and collaborator in the same field, who was nourished by the same ideas— although we used different methods and had different results because of the terrain in which each worked.
