ABSTRACT
The regime headed first by General Lonardi and subsequently by General Aramburu was far from democratic, despite its pretensions. This chapter shows this was reflected in the education system during this period and the regimes efforts to remold it in the spirit of the Liberating Revolution. Using various resources textbooks, curricula, school calendars, and so on the Peronist regime sought to mold a generation of new Argentines who would identify with Pern and his works. Testimony by Argentines who were teachers and pupils in that year reveals that the teachers' immediate reaction to the new political circumstances was to instruct their pupils to tear out those pages of their Peronist textbooks that were saturated with political-partisan messages or on which the personality cult of the Pern's was conspicuous. The liberal concept that dominated the study of history until then had continued to do so during Pern's presidency, except for minor changes.
