When, during the Pedagogy Conference of 2003, the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, stated that the development of the Cuban education would have enormous political, social and human significance, in the midst of a struggle in which ideas were the main tool to saving humanity, he bestowed on educators a great responsibility on this path toward knowledge and the development of ideas, more relevant today than ever.
The International Pedagogy Conference 2015 will begin this afternoon, January 26, with some 2,500 delegates from more than 30 countries on hand – the 14th edition since the event’s creation in 1986 -, with a special presentation by Ena Elsa Velázquez Cobiellas, Cuba’s minister of Education, and a cultural gala in the Karl Marx theatre, with the participation of 500 general education and arts students, who will present Cuba’s developments in this sphere.
