I bring you 28 thoughts of Simón Rodríguez (Simón Narciso de Jesús Carreño Rodríguez) or Samuel Robinson, as he was known in exile. He is the father of the ideas of independence and freedom in America, as he was the teacher of Simón Bolívar; to whom he instilled a general education based on ideas of equality and independence for citizens and the continent.
His training stems from his admiration for authors such as: Montesquieu, Rousseau, Voltaire, Locke and Saint-Simon. He rejected all kinds of monarchical domination; his intellectual influence was decisive in starting the wars of independence and beginning to create a republican and independent continent.
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- Puiggros, A (2005) From Simón Rodríguez to Paulo Freire: education for Ibero-American integration. Publisher: Ediciones Colihue.