Nuclei and Museum Places of Emigration

Teaching

In the context of philanthropy, there are four schools: Deolinda Leite (1892), Conde Ferreira (1866), Leite Lage (1877) and António Joaquim Vieira Montenegro. They show us how important was teaching and the role of school for the returned emigrants; one of these schools will become the Teaching Museum.

The geographic distribution of these schools is not balanced and they exist where there were successful emigrants. The existence of these schools is a witness to these initiatives in primary teaching as well as in the promotion of professional and industrial school-asylums and even special teaching for the blind and deaf.

“We can state that the best equipped schools with furniture until the thirties in the North and Centre of the country were doubtlessly the ones offered by Brazilians. When the benefactors were present during the construction of the school, they chose Brazilian wood, school furniture and equipment that reminded them of Brazil. (...) Many decided to give yearly donations to buy books and material for the pupils and even rewards for the teacher.”