The educational model of the pre-military and military schools, despite their specific variations over time due to their adaptation to successive governments and the existing legislative regulations, has an invariable characteristic: enter at the young men in the circles of the army, instructing them in practices tactics, in their Catholic dogmas - except the republican period - and through own corporate spirit of the institution. In this line of action, and to be more widely accepted by civil society, is presented as modernization, educational and regeneration proposal for broad social projection. However, the compensation to stimulate such studies among young men had little incentive, for learning the first letters and redemption of certain stretch of military service just encouraged the lower and depressed sectors of the social ladder who would preferably intended.
Spain; Canary Islands; military schools; military training; civil society