Paths to discover social education through savings

• Main Author: Manuel Menor Currás
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidad Pontificia Comillas 2016-10-01
• Series: Miscelánea Comillas
• Subjects: Cajas de Ahorro; Obra Benéfico-Social (OBS); beneficencia; caridad; educación social; ahorro escolar; mutualidades escolares; economía doméstica; Real Academia de Ciencias Morales y Políticas (RACMP); Comisión de Reformas Sociales(CRS); Instituto Nacional
• Online Access: https://revistas.comillas.edu/index.php/miscelaneacomillas/article/view/7312

Ten years ago I investigated the educational meaning that saving and savings banks had in Spain between 1834 and 1919. An important part of that study has already been published. What I like to present here are the main ideas that at the beginning of that work I had the privilege to discuss with Juan Manuel Cobo. Thanks to those conversations I would able to limitate my subject. The object was to explain and to contextualize the sentence: «the traditional benefical work of savings banks» which the institutional documentation repeated continuously as a leitmotiv.