Esther Festini was a Peruvian educator. She was the first woman that went to the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos and the first one that received a Doctor of Letters. Her effort to study

education Education is a purposeful activity directed at achieving certain aims, such as transmitting knowledge or fostering skills and character traits. These aims may include the development of understanding, rationality, kindness, and honesty. Va ...

at the university was aimed at the official recognition of the Liceo Grau, a school of which she was the founder and director. She went to the

UNMSM The National University of San Marcos ( es, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, link=no, UNMSM) is a public research university located in Lima, the capital of Peru. It is considered the most important, recognized and representative educ ...

in 1898; three years later, in 1901, she graduated from high school . In 1904 she obtained the degree of Doctor from the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters thanks to her thesis, ''Cuestiones relativas a la educación femenina'' uestions relating to female educationwhere she proposed a new model of public education and the need to implement schools for girls. Upon completing 50 years of teaching activity, she was honored with a plaque in the honor yard of the Miguel Grau National School. A street in the Lima's Magdalena del Mar District bears her name (Esther Festini de Ramos St.), as well as an educational institution in the Comas District and a secondary school in the

San Martín de Porres District San Martín de Porres (SMP) is a district in Lima, Peru, located in the north area of the city. It is bordered by the Chillón River, marks its natural border with Ventanilla and Puente Piedra on the north; Callao on the west; Los Olivos, Com ...

, both in the Peruvian capital.

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