RODRIGUEZ GARCIA 



JOSE A RODRIGUEZ GARCIA 



Teacher; writer. 



Jose A. Rodriguez Garcia was born in 

 Matanzas on the twenty-second of Febru- 

 ary. 1864. He removed to Havana where 

 he was taught in private schools and in due 

 course won his degree of Bachelor. 



In 1882 he was appointed auxiliary Pro- 

 fessor in the School of Arts and Crafts. 

 In the following year he became Professor 

 of Mathematics and later, on the reorgani- 

 zation of the plan of education, he was en- 

 trusted with the courses in Grammar, 

 Geography, History, Accounting, and Econ- 

 omy. During the seventeen years of his 

 service as Professor in the School of Arts 

 and Crafts he continued his study of Phil- 

 osophy and Letters and Law. He ob- 

 tained his degree of Licentiate and later 

 that of Doctor in Philosophy and Let- 



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