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The new Secondary School Linares Eduardo Molina de Segura Lumera has been opened today Tuesday 4 November, Calle El Quijote del Barrio of Molineta.
The event was attended by the Mayor of the town, Eduardo Contreras Linares, Minister for Education, Training and Employment, Constantine Sotoca Carrascosa, and the Councillor for Education, Mariola Martinez Robles.
The center has 16 classrooms of Secondary Education (ESO) and 6 classrooms Bachelor of Visual and Performing Arts and Training Course.
During the current academic year 2008/2009, there are a total of 107 enrolled students: 3 groups of first year of ESO (83 students), and 1 group of first year of high school (24).
The rest of educational facilities of the institute are: classroom technology, classroom Plumier (computer science), music classrooms, special classrooms for the Bachelor of Visual and Performing Arts, Library, auditorium, indoor sports pavilion and two outdoor sports courts free.
The investment made by the Autonomous Community of Murcia amounts to 4,687,000 euros, and the works have been executed by the company Ferrovial Agroman SA The building has 3 floors with a total built area of 6,112 meters square (5412 meters useful square) on a municipal site of 10,000 square meters.
This is the fourth school in the municipality and is named after Eduardo Linares Lumera (1890/1960), which offer better semblance of his students: "The January 18, 1928 marked a milestone in the history of Molina to open in this town and on this day a School of Arts and Crafts, so was called, the head of which was a simple man, whose profession was teaching outside ...
Equipped with admirable didactic qualities and exceptional toughness, these virtues which, together with a large detachment to this work made it possible for the seed deposited with the creation of this school bear fruit giving a hundredfold.
He was a physician and teacher of vocation. "
He studied medicine and pharmacy in Madrid, where he lived intensely environments and cultural events and sports, while attending classes Ramón y Cajal, Histology professor since 1892 at the University Complutense of Madrid.
Reader of the works of José de Letamendi (1828/1897), undisputed genius in his time, and the authors of the Generation of 98, from Costa, Unamuno, Ganivet, Baroja, etc, to the Generation of 14 as Ortega and Marañon, who, in different ways, stressed the need to regenerate after the loss of Spain's last colonies.
Moreover, he met and probably part of the concerns of political regeneration of Maura with its "revolution from above", sanitation and moralization of political life.
Eduardo Linares Lumera Archena practiced medicine, he met Mario Spreafico and Polyclinic Dispensary in which the poor could find a doctor and medicine, moving to 1923 to Molina de Segura, then, suffered from diseases like malaria, trachoma , typhus or tuberculosis.
In 1924, he became a member of the Steering Committee of the Patriotic Union in the town, attracted by the offer to eradicate despotism, "the bowels of evil in Spain," the dictator Primo de Rivera.
Persevering writer, promoter of local newspapers, poet, playwright manners, host of literary evenings and cultural and recreational societies, its most prominent would be the teacher.
The mark left on his students has been so durable that you got today.
Along with Francisco Martinez Bernal, painter, sculptor, carpenter ... he founded the School of Arts and Crafts, which has always been its director.
Sought and found a group of collaborators in teaching.
He spent his time after work as a doctor, to explain the various subjects, always free and generous, students studying for tests in Murcia.
His ideology was set to write: "It was never the purpose that led us to found the school or after-founded, to make disciples who follow us, but to guide and train men capable of transforming the environment Molina."
Was opposed by local authorities cacique, who accused him of making the school "a perversion center and a hotbed of hatred."
More remains thankful remembrance of his students that in the turbulent Spain of the Second Republic, were able to live in the school and beyond, despite their differences of opinion.
Eduardo Linares Lumera feeling remains in the city of Molina as a physician and teacher as honest and generous, single person while egregious.
In his memory is installed in the center Lifeguard sculpture by the artist Pepe molinense Yagües, made of steel, wood and bronze.
Two meters wide, three meters high and one meter deep.
Located at the main entrance, it is a lifeboat that refers to the form of boat building, medical profession Eduardo Linares, and is guided by aesthetic criteria agreed with the building's architect, Francisco Solá.
The tree sculpture is the tree of knowledge, making the mast / sail, which are distinguished numbers, letters and the names (written in the leaves) of people who saved Eduardo Linares illiteracy.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Molina de Segura
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