Schools and students. Elementary education in the burgh and land Padron at the end of the Old Regime

In the present study we have made an analysis of the subject of the primary instruction, better known as education of first letters, in the region of the Low Ulla during the XVIII and XIX centuries. After verifying the slow but constant advance of the school presence, we have analyzed those aspects related to the quality of teaching such as the conditions and capacities of the teachers, the methods and the system used, the schedules and the school calendar, the buildings destined to such aim and the materials used in the teaching learning process.