Colégio Culto à Ciência
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The Colégio Culto à Ciência (Portuguese for "Cult to Science" High School), currently denominated E.P.S.G. "Culto à Ciência"), is a public secondary school located in the city of Campinas, state of São Paulo, Brazil. It was founded in 1869 as a boy's private school by an association composed by the city's farmers, merchants and intellectuals, among them Antônio Pompeu de Camargo, Francisco Glicério, Manoel Ferraz de Campos Salles (later, a president of Brazil), Jorge Krug, Joaquim Bonifácio do Amaral (Viscount of Indaiatuba), Joaquim Egídio de Souza Aranha (Marquis of Tres Rios), Cândido Ferreira and the Baron of Atibaia. The school's name reflects the influence of positivism on its founders. In 1890 the school went through a financial crisis and had to close its doors until 1896, when it was reopened under the aegis of the state (then province of São Paulo), as the Ginásio Estadual (State Gymnasium).
Until 1964, when a controversial educational reform was promoted by the military régime, it was an equalitarian, high quality school, used both by the economical élite and the ascending middle class. Many of these qualities were lost after the reform, to the chagrin of its many alumni. Presently they organized themselves into a support not-for-profit association and contribute with private funds to improve the school's outcomes.
The School has had many notable alumni, such as:
- Alberto Santos-Dumont, pioneer aviator
- Regina Duarte, TV actress
- Fausto Silva, TV showman
- Moacyr Castro, journalist and writer
[edit] External links
- Official Web Site, Friends of Culto à Ciência Association. In Portuguese.
- Historical and Photographic Monography - an excellent site about the school, with hundreds of photographs and documents. By Carlos Francisco de Paula Neto. In Portuguese.
