On August 11th, in Brazil, the Student's day. This commemoration has been taking place since 1927 and had as its starting point something that took place 100 years earlier, that is, in 1827, at the time of the newly instituted EmpireBrazilian. On August 11, 1827, the then emperor Dom Pedro I authorized the creation of the first two faculties in Brazil, the Faculty of Law of Olinda, in Pernambuco, and the Faculty of Law of Largo do São Francisco, in São Paulo. For this reason, on August 11th, it is also celebrated O Lawyer's Day in Brazil.
Given the crucial importance that law schools had in the process of consolidating higher education and the exercise of intellectual life in Brazil, great part of those responsible for “thinking Brazil”, interpreting our history and defining and understanding our education had its intellectual basis as bachelors in Right.
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Date officialization
Thus, on August 11, 1927, one hundred years after the creation of the aforementioned faculties, there was a commemoration in honor of them. The lawyer
Celso Gand Ley, who was participating in the celebrations, suggested to the other participants that, on the same date, the Student's day, since, more than a symbol of the beginning of legal courses in Brazil, the law schools were also icons in the history of Brazilian education.Do not stop now... There's more after the advertising ;)
Gand Ley's suggestion was accepted and, since then, Lawyer's Day and Student's Day are celebrated on the same date. There was still, ten years later, in 1937 – the year in which the dictatorship of the stateNew in GetulioVargas –, the creation of the UnityNationalFromStudents (UNE), a fact that “chorused” to reinforce the day dedicated to students.
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International Student Day
Internationally, Student Day is celebrated in November 17th and makes reference to student resistance to the occupation Nazi in the former Czechoslovakia in 1939. This date was chosen by the International Student Council (which today is the current International Union of Students), in 1941, in the capital of England, as a way to pay homage to the aforementioned resistance and, above all, one of the young participants, JanOpletal, who ended up dying on November 11, 1939.
By Me. Cláudio Fernandes
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FERNANDES, Claudio. "August 11—Student's Day"; Brazil School. Available in: https://brasilescola.uol.com.br/datas-comemorativas/dia-estudante.htm. Accessed on June 28, 2021.
