El Testament acadèmic de Josep Oriol Bernadet (1811-1860)

Abstract

The 1st of March 1860, Josep Oriol Bernadet read a report while on shift at the Barcelona Royal Academy of Sciences and Arts entitled, Sobre los sistemas generales de enseñanza (On general teaching systems) in which a proposal was made to answer the questions that revolved around three main issues affecting secondary and professional education at the time: what qualities should a teacher have? What were the faculties that needed to be strengthened in students? And what were the requisites for implementing a good educational system? The validity of the content and the fact that this text is preserved in manuscript form and has not been published yet, although 150 years have passed since its submission, has encouraged us to present it in this article. Furthermore, the fact that its author died on 30 July of that year gives this manuscript nearly the value of being the last will and testament of its author as a teacher. Hence, we thought it might well be regarded as his testament as a scholar.