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IEC Patrons
Rómulo de Carvalho, Miguel Torga and José Mariano Gago are the elected patrons of the Institute of Education and Citizenship, which serve as a reference for human greatness and for the ethical and moral values that govern the conduct of IEC members.
Rómulo de Carvalho (1906-1997)
Pedagogue, he became a reference, in the memory of many of his students, historian of Science, and great poet who wrote under the pseudonym António Gedeão. As a poet, he incorporates, in his poetry, a current scientific culture, and reveals a clear vision of the modern world.
For Rómulo " being a teacher has to be a passion, it can be a cold passion but it has to be a passion. A dedication." In addition to being a scientist, he concentrated his efforts on the pedagogical activity and dissemination of Science, dedicating himself to teaching and preparing school textbooks. He also published numerous texts and works in the context of the History of Science.
This scientist, teacher, pedagogue, historian of science, writer and poet showed us that the border between science and art is, in fact, quite blurred.
Miguel Torga (1907-1995)
Adolfo Correia da Rocha, known by his pseudonym Miguel Torga, was one of the most influential Portuguese poets and writers of the 20th century.
A doctor and writer, he was born in Trás-os-Montes, and in his childhood years he had a troubled life, which went through emigration to Brazil, from where he returned at the age of 17. He was a man of integrity, known for his Diaries, tales, poetry, prose accessible to all who read it.
José Mariano Gago (1948-2015)
José Mariano Gago was one of the scientists and human beings who most marked his generation. Mariano Gago was an independent spirit who entered politics to defend scientists from all areas of knowledge.
He was a bold minister, who knew that his unifying vision of knowledge was not peaceful in academic circles, but he launched bold funding programs aimed at researchers with genuine curiosity for knowledge.
Mariano Gago freed researchers from traditional universities, where action and free thought were limited, gave freedom to researchers, was revolutionary and a man of vision.
Mariano Gago made Science in the laboratories and then took it to the street, took scientific experimentation to schools, through the intervention of Ciência Viva and the research centers, and wanted to take scientific arguments into the debates of society and democratic political decision.