ABSTRACT
This paper discusses a traditional interpretation of the figures of Bolívar and Rodríguez on popular education. According to most academic papers written, there would be a political and intellectual identification between Bolívar and Rodríguez. This communion is expressed in the ideas that each holds for the education of the people. This article is critical of this traditional interpretation and argues that the ideas concerning education are very different for both thinkers. Throughout this work, the different works presented by this community of ideas are critically presented, the similarities and differences of both authors in the light of the documents kept are analyzed and a concluding moment in which the central axes of the text are resumed is proposed.
KEYWORDS:
history of education; Latin America; Simón Rodríguez; Bolívar; Lancaster