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name in Batabano. In 1906 he entered the 

 ranks of teachers in Havana and was pro- 

 moted to the position of Principal of the 

 Practice School attached to the School of 

 Pedagogy of the University of Havana. 

 Later for three years he was Professor of 

 Methods in the Summer Normal School 

 of Havana. In 19 13 he was appointed 

 Provincial Superintendent of Schools for 

 the Province of Pinar del Rio. In 191 5 he 

 won in competitive examination the Pro- 

 fessorship ol Pedagogical Studies in the 

 Normal School of Havana which had just 

 been founded, and the Board of Protessors 

 elected him Director of the School thus 

 placing him at the head of the first institu- 

 tion of its kind established in Cuba after 

 the fall of the Spanish rule. 



Since 1904 Dr. Guerra has given much 

 time and labor to the magazine ot educa- 

 tion Cuba Pedagogica published in Havana, 

 and has contributed to its pages many 

 articles on Methods, Psychology, School 

 Management, History of Education, etc. 

 He is the author of the courses of study in 

 Drawing, Nature Study, and Agriculture 



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