Las escuelas de americanos: un patrimonio de la emigración

Abstract

During the Restoration, there was an exodus of Galicians who, in search of a life that the backward Galicia of the time could not offer them, went to America, a land where they could find many more opportunities for economic and social progress.

But most of the emigrants were poorly educated, which prevented them from gaining access to skilled jobs.

The realisation of the importance of education in the development of society meant that the emigrants, when economic conditions allowed them to do so, encouraged, using different ways of channelling their aid, the creation of decent, well-equipped schools in their native Galicia, like those in the American countries that welcomed them. These are what have come to be called American schools.