Changes

| elected_ESL =

| elected_ASL =

| elected_APS =

| elected_LAS =

| membership = Local Correspondent<br />ordinary fellow from 1914

| clubs =

| societies =

=== House Notes ===

=== Notes From Elsewhere ===

António Aurélio da Costa Ferreira: a great Madeiran educator <br />For the past 125 years António Aurélio da Costa Ferreira, a doctor, anthropologist, teacher and renowned pedagogue, has been born in the parish of Santa Luzia in the municipality of Funchal, with a prominent place in the History of Education in Portugal<br />Son of Francisco Joaquim da Costa Ferreira, born in Porto, and Teodolinda Augusta de Freitas Ferreira, native of Machico, António Aurélio da Costa Ferreira was born on January 18, 1879, and was baptized in the parish church of Santa Luzia on 17 next month<br />He completed his primary education in Viana do Castelo. However, he attended high school in the city where he was born. During this period of his life, he was strongly influenced by his maternal uncle João Joaquim de Freitas, a distinguished professor of Literature and Portuguese Language in our Liceu and librarian of the Municipal Library of Funchal.<br />In 1894, António Aurelio enrolled in the University of Coimbra to study Philosophy, graduating in 1899. The following year he enrolled in Medicine, a course that ended in 1905. He received several awards in both colleges. As a doctor, he practiced in Paris, Brussels and Lisbon<br />During his stay in Coimbra, he collaborated in several periodicals, with scientific works or articles of civic intervention. It was also in this city that he adhered to the republican ideal, of which he would be an active and convinced militant. <br />One can not, however, understand the performance of Costa Ferreira as a citizen, without associating his Masonic formation to the condition of fervent Republican. <br />As Republican councilor in Lisbon City Council from 1908 to 1911, he defended several measures in the scope of Education, Culture, School Sports and medical and social assistance to disadvantaged children of the county. <br />In the context of political activity, his election as a deputy in August 1910 by Setúbal and in 1911 by the Funchal circle was also noteworthy. He also served as Minister of Development from June 1912 to January 1913. However, this passage by the government corresponds to his disappointment with active politics. He said: "I was a minister. This is the greatest honor I have ever received, the greatest sacrifice I have ever made, and the greatest grief I have ever experienced. Today, in the face of what is going on, I am no longer satisfied with not being a minister again; I do not want to be a politician. " <br />Already somewhat disappointed with the activity that developed, Costa Ferreira accepted, in 1922, the invitation of Brito Camacho for a mission of anthropological studies in Mozambique. He departed from Lisbon to Funchal, and from here he embarked for Lourenço Marques. He came, however, to commit suicide in this city on 15 July. <br />In his honor, the Municipality of Funchal attributed, in September 1922, his name to Rua do Carmo. However, after a few years this artery city has taken over the old designation<br />Although he died at the age of 43, António Aurélio da Costa Ferreira left us a vast work in various fields of knowledge, from literature to anthropology and pedagogy. <br />As an educator, he played an important role in the direction of Casa Pia de Lisboa, in the training of teachers, in the rehabilitation and integration of children with special educational needs, in promoting the secularization of Teaching and in the dissemination of the "Nova Escola" movement in Portugal. <br />Appointed director of the Casa Pia de Lisboa in March 1911, Costa Ferreira guided his work within the purposes of the "New School", granting full freedom to the children and directing them to the arts and crafts according to the aptitudes shown. He also encouraged classes in crafts, music and sports. <br />By the way, sign what he wrote in the newspaper The Time of March 25, 1911: "It is not only useful that teaching which aims to provide immediate application of knowledge." Intended, therefore, to "create scientific spirit, cultivate colleges And skills, teaching to observe, to experience, to reason, to foster the critical spirit, to create eyes to see, hands to work, brains to think, but so that brains, eyes and hands walk together and freely. <br />In the course of teacher training, he taught Pedology, General Hygiene and School Hygiene at the Normal School in Lisbon, starting in 1915. In the various studies he has given to psychopedagogy, in order to train teachers and educators of normal and handicapped children, With strong influences of Édouard Claparède (1873-1940), Alfred Binet (1857-1911), Ovide Decroly (1871-1932) and Maria Montessori (1870-1952). As for Kant (1724-1804) and Pestalozzi (1746-1827) ideas about education, namely the need to develop all the skills of the learner and the preparation that the school should give for the intervention of the learner. Individual in a better future of humanity. <br />Costa Ferreira understood that the time of the master-school was outdated. It was no longer enough to teach reading, writing, and counting. The future teacher should, therefore, have knowledge on Pedology, School Hygiene, Handicrafts and Gymnastics. The individualization of teaching and the importance of the development of the senses also deserved its attention. <br />On the other hand, it is worth mentioning their dedication to children with special educational needs, especially at Casa Pia de Lisboa. It has thus developed a number of efforts towards the rehabilitation, teaching and social integration of the so-called "pedagogical anomalies", stutterers and deaf-mute. For the "pedagogical anomalies", he created, in 1912, the Colony of S. Bernardino, in Atouguia da Baleia, near Peniche. The following year, he devoted himself to the teacher-training course for deaf-mutes. In 1915, he founded the Medical-Pedagogical Institute, in the parish of Santa Isabel. This Institute is part of the project for the development of a scientific pedagogy in Portugal, within the scope of the "New Education" movement, which was also discussed by António Sérgio, Adolfo Lima, Álvaro Viana de Lemos, Joaquim Tomás and Faria de Vasconcelos, among others . <br />In his honor, as of 1929, the Medical-Pedagogical Institute of Casa Pia of Lisbon received the denomination of António Aurélio da Costa Ferreira Institute, its founder. Also, its name is associated with the Institute of Educational Innovation. <br />The name is perhaps ignored in his homeland, it is true that this Madeiran stands out among the host of Republican educators who have engaged in the secularization of teaching and in the dissemination of scientific pedagogy and the ideals of the "New School". On this island, the 125th anniversary of the birth of Antonio Aurélio da Costa Ferreira, the pedagogue who, at the beginning of the twentieth century, said that no child, due to greater difficulties, may not have Access to education. <br /><br /><br />