2019 Teacher's Day: Google Celebrates Teachers in Mexico

May 15, Google remembered the teachers day with a doodle. Since 1918, Mexico has begun to commemorate the work done by teachers in schools.

This doodle is visible not only in Mexico, but also in Colombia and Korea, celebrated the same day by teachers.

According to the origin of the date, in 1917, the former President Venustiano Carranza He signed a decree to establish the day and to be able to celebrate all the educators of Mexico. Initiative launched by Benito Ramírez and Enrique Viesca.

The day was set because it coincided with the capture of Querétaro in 1867, during which the Republican army entered the city and captured the Spanish Emperor Maximilian of Habsburg and his followers.

Carranza, a politician and soldier who later participated in the Revolution, according to his ideals, thought that It was a date to remember because of its importance to the country.

The power to celebrate the teacher, in Mexico, was also because they thought that it was necessary to find a way to thank the teachers the tasks they did.

Similarly, teachers' day is linked to the ratification made by Pope Pius XII to Saint John Baptist de La Salle, who was born in France in the middle of the seventeenth century, as the universal patron of educators. This appointment is given because he has spent his whole life preparing teachers.

Likewise, he founded the Congregation of the Brothers of the Christian Schools which, although founders of religion Secular education was given to people who did not have money and to orphans.

One of the coincidences with this date was that the festivities of San Juan Bautista de la Salle they were also celebrated with the anniversary of the capture of Queretaro.

So May 15 This was great for commemorating teachers in Mexico. Although the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), established in 1993 that the celebration of teachers around the world would take place on October 5.

Until 2018, in Mexico there were 2 million 66,000 teachers in the national education system, according to data from the Ministry of Public Education (SEP). Of these, 4.9% worked less than 14 hours a week, 54.30% worked 14 to 34 hours, 38.10% worked 35 to 48 hours, 2.70% worked more than 48 hours.