FERNANDEZ 



RAFAEL ANTONIO FERNANDEZ 



Educator. 



Rafael Antonio Fernandez was born 



in the Asturias in Spain at the town of 

 Belmont, in 1877. He was educated pri- 

 vately at Surgidere de Batabano, Cuba. 

 At the University of Havana he obtained 

 the degree of Doctor of Pedagogy. In 

 Batabano from 1910^1915 he was director 

 of a primary school called Jose Alonzo Del- 

 gado. He was pedagogical instructor of 

 the Aguacate District in the Province of 

 Havana in 191 5, and in 191 5 became pro- 

 vincial instructor of primary instruction in 

 the Province of Pinar del Rio. After com- 

 petition he was nominated to the chair of 

 Associate Professor of Pedagogical Studies 

 in the Normal School for Schoolteachers 

 in Havana, 191 6. In the same year he 

 was named by the Department of Public 



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