The Colégio Culto à Ciência ( Portuguese for ''"Cult to Science" High School''), denominated E.E. Culto à Ciência), is a public secondary

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located in the city of

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, state of

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. It was founded in 1874, as a boy's private school by ''Sociedade Culto à Ciência'', which members were partly of the Mason's Commission of the Campinas' Justice Lodge "Independence". Composed by the city's farmers, merchants and intellectuals, among such were: Antônio Pompeu de Camargo; Francisco Glicério; Manoel Ferraz de Campos Salles, then the Secretary of the Campinas' Lodge (later, President of Brazil during 1898-1902''Presidência da República Federativa do Brasil''---"Campos Sales, Third Period of Republican Government"
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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

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. Presently, they are part of the state educational system, ''Secretaria do Estado de São Paulo.''

Notable alumni

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- pioneer

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, * Antonio Ferreira Cesarino Junior - jurist, physician, economist and university professor at the (

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and at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, * Regina Duarte - TV actress, * Fausto Silva - TV showman, * Renato M.E. Sabbatini - scientist and professor, * Marcelo Damy - physicist and university professor ( USP and UNICAMP).

References

External links

Official website, Friends of Culto à Ciência Association
In Portuguese.

- about the school, with photographs and documents, in Portuguese. {{DEFAULTSORT:Colegio Culto a Ciencia Schools in Brazil Education in Campinas Educational institutions established in 1869 1869 establishments in Brazil Organisations based in Campinas