The word baccalaureate is very old and its name is given to an academic program that undergoes variations depending on the country, in some nations, especially English-speaking Europeans, the term Bachelor is maintained to refer to higher education. In Latin American countries, the story is different, since there are nations where it is mandatory to complete high school such as Ecuador and others such as Spain that is not a requirement. In past centuries, a bachelor was someone who had completed the first academic degree at the university. Nowadays, a high school student is understood to be the student who is studying high school, but also that graduate who obtained a high school degree.
To understand a little where this word comes from and where its academic appearance arises as a necessity for the professional future, it is necessary to go back a few centuries, in the clergy study groups that in their monasteries prepared for debates with others religious sects that existed in the Middle Ages. Also during that time there were other clergy such as the secular, who were simply the ones who administered the church assets and who until the 11th century did not have their own teaching, so their knowledge was very basic. For this reason, the bishops found it necessary to create episcopal schoolswhere they not only went out as theologians but also studied science and art. Years later, in those same study centers, the Trívium and Quadrivium began to be implemented, teaching methods that are considered essential, since they learned a trade from which they would have to live.
Regarding the Quadrivium teaching program, it was a very complete system that included the subjects of: music, geometry and astronomy. At the end of the 17th century, Pope Innocent III gave the order for the general studies to be created, which at the same time took the name of universities. In history, at least a third of the students who entered high school are not clear about what to study and it is natural to have the certainty of knowing what you want, so high school is essential to define your vocation.
