Normalism was a great educational movement gestated by an oligarchic government initially in Argentina, then the idea of an “ideal educational system” would spread throughout Latin America. The history of Normalism, briefly told, could be like this: There was a government made up of the richest and most powerful families in the region, they administered everything related to the fiscal and administrative aspects of the state. They had a plan, which consisted of producing and working to make Argentina a world power and an economically partner in the international market, so they decided to promote Argentina by offering education instead of work.
The government of Argentina then formed a "teaching state" in which a complex educational structure would be developed that would include infrastructure, equipment and high quality personnel to overcome the shadow of ignorance of all those Europeans hit by the First World War who decided crossing the Atlantic Ocean in search of a better life and of all those gauchos, Creoles and indigenous people who came to the city in search of the solution or improvement of life offered.
The Public Education System that would guarantee this entire plan was built from 1880 to 1916, when it began, the features that most stood out in the conformation of Normalism were: discipline, which imposed a regal character and without contemplation, moral and ethical, ideal for the insertion of values that would be the primacy of the student's personality, hygienism, and homogenization.
Normalism was a social phenomenon, beyond an educational system, since it transformed a community, it served as a tool for the fulfillment of a project of an oligarchic government that sought to profit widely from this, but at the same time it brought development and sustainability for everyone in the nation. The normal and public schools of the system were a filter in which the Creole became a citizen of the city, the professors and teachers adapted to a severe system of education where the premise was the education of the highest quality with the purpose of meet the goal. The character of Normalism It was so well established that it was an example for the development of many educational models that are still in force today.
