El método onomatopéyico: Un diálogo a la distancia de Torres Quintero con Comenio

Abstract

This text established an advance of the investigation about the methods of the lecturing and writing around the end of the 19th century. It discusses some of the converging influences and practices that would remain the late 20th century. The authors make it clear that practices and theory travel together, through contact among contexts and interlocutors who are seemingly very distant, but are proximal to the circumstances and needs of Mexican society of the late 19th century and the beginning of the 20th.

That is the moment of the cultural flourishing of the Porfiriate and the proposals to improve the teaching of diverse and proliferating content. In this context, the lecture-writing methods were of prime concern and many renown pedagogues took part in the debate on the best procedures. One of the most striking proposals concerned the onomatopoeic method associated whit the pedagogue from Colima, Gregorio Torres Quintero (1866-1934). From where and how this method appeared has been a conundrum since it also involves the Moravian thinker John Amos Comenius (1592-1670) in the Orbis Sensualium Pictus (1658)? Which is the appropriation that the Colimense author and which the contribution of the Moravian thinker? How did Torres Quintero come to know about the Orbis Pictus? These are some of the questions this article ponders.