National Lyceum (São Tomé and Príncipe)

National Lyceum
Liceu Nacional in 2014
Address
National Lyceum
Avenida (Marginal) 12 de Julho
São Tomé, São Tomé Island
São Tomé and Príncipe
Coordinates 0°20′19″N 6°44′26″E / 0.33861°N 6.74056°E / 0.33861; 6.74056
Information
Established 6 October 1969
Number of students c. 6,000 (2015)

National Lyceum (Liceu Nacional) is a lyceum located at Avenida Marginal 12 Julho in the subdivision of Ponta Mina, São Tomé, São Tomé and Príncipe. One of the oldest secondary schools in the nation and is also one of the leading educational institutions in this small African island nation. It currently has an estimate of 6,000 students.[1] It is also a building of Heritage of Portuguese Influence.[2]

The students of the university are known to participate in World Meteorological Day.[3]

The lyceum (secondary school) is located on the seafront, just the north of the former Taiwanese Embassy and Hotel Miramar and southeast of the National Library of São Tomé and Príncipe, it is also located near the USTP's High Institute of Education and Communications.

About the lyceum

Entrance into the lyceum with a plaque of a quote by Paulo Freire

The lyceum was founded on 6 October 1969 as Escola Técnica Silva e Cunha with the opening of its headquarters now the "National Lyceum Building".[4] The lyceum unlike other institutions of a lyceum in Portugal, was not risen as a secondary school, but as a technical school. The building was also one of the last notable colonial buildings built in the archipelago.

After independence on July 12, 1975, it adopted the name Paulo Freire National Lyceum named after a Brazilian educator Paulo Freire, when Brazilian influences were dominant on the training of teachers in the nation's early years. It was one of the first two buildings in the nation named after a Brazilian including a great in literature. At the lyceum entrance has a sentence written by Paulo Freire "Onde quer que haja mulheres e homens ha sempre o que faze rha sempre o que ensinhar ha sempre o que aprender". Parallelly the only legal institution in the archipelago was Liceu Nacional D. João II (John I National Lyceum) which is now Patrice Lumumba Preparatory School, it transformed into a preparatory school, making the LNSTP for 36 years, the only high school.[5]

It adopted its current name in 1988 along with Patrice Lumumba Prep School.[6]

Architecture

The building architecture is made up of colonial neoclassical architecture, it was an imposing work, even in the main façade.[2] The buildings and its headquarters forms a part of the national architectural heritage. It was made by Mário de Oliveira.[7]

Notable alumni

  • Tomé Vera Cruz, Prime Minister of São Tomé and Príncipe from 2006-2008, class of 1975

See also

References

  1. ↑ Castro, Adilson (27 September 2016). "Arranca novo Ano Lectivo 2016-2017 em São Tomé e Príncipe". Diário de São Tomé e Príncipe - Jornal Transparência. Retrieved 2012-12-20.
  2. 1 2 Milheiro, Ana Vaz (2008). "Liceu Nacional (Formerly the Escola Técnica Silva e Cunha)". Heritage of Portuguese Influence/ Património de Influência Portuguesa — HPIP. Retrieved 2017-12-20.
  3. ↑ World Meteorological Organization (1979). WMO bulletin. The Organization. Retrieved 10 November 2011.
  4. ↑ Caiado, João Bento Lourenço Sêrro Franco. Arquitetura da Escola Técnica: O Caso da Cidade de São Tomé (Architecture of Technical Schools: House of the City of São Tomé), Facultry of Architecture at the University of Lisbon, November 2015
  5. ↑ "New Lyceum Opened by Fradique de Menezes". Tela Non (in Portuguese). 30 August 2011.
  6. ↑ Sousa, João da Silva Pinto de. Abordagem Histórica do Sistema Educacional de São Tomé e Príncipe Pós - Colonial (1975 – 1990)' (in Portuguese)
  7. ↑ "de Oliveira (1914-2013): o arquitecto que morreu duas vezes." Público, 18 December 2013 (in Portuguese)

Coordinates: 0°20′19″N 6°44′26″E / 0.33861°N 6.74056°E / 0.33861; 6.74056

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