Rafael Cordero y Molina

Rafael Cordero y Molina (1790-1868) was a Puerto Rican educator, also called El Maestro (Teacher). He worked to end educational discrimination, especially based on race and monetary status. He founded an open-admissions school, which he supported partly by making shoes.

Wisdom & Quotes

• The Children need the break of the mind.
• I cut the tree and my calloused hand carves it, but someone more able than I must finish it with beauty and brilliance.
• I write nothing in this life because I do not want to spend today remembering whatever good I did yesterday.

Samuel Finley Breese Morse

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