GASPAR MELCHOR DE JOVELLANOS, PEDAGOGUE ILUSTRADO

This article about Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos (1744-1811) recalls some of the educational contributions of the brilliant illustrated man, a modernizer. The text highlights above all his status as a pedagogue, his concern for public education, linked to individual and social development. For Jovellanos, education is the key to prosperity, an education of a public, theoretical-practical, moral and aesthetic, humanistic nature. In short, this article pays humble homage to the asturian polygraph, whose great educational legacy continues to illuminate two hundred years later.