Ideologización, libertad de ense？anza y autonomía universitaria en Venezuela

if the first right of any person is the right to live, without which all other rights fail to have any meaning whatsoever, then the right to education and to receive it in tune with one？s convictions is closely associated with freedom of conscience and thought. the right to education under the above conditions is a natural human requirement in order to achieve full and satisfactory self-development as well as to strengthen social ties, as well as human rights in general. this study is a historical overview of those initiatives taken by venezuelan public offices to exercise control over the educational system. as such, it covers a period of over two hundred years starting with the 1794 project of simon rodriguez through to the current 2007 socialist orientation that the so-called bolivarian revolutionary government wishes to impose.