José Castillejo

José Castillejo Duarte (* 1877 in Ciudad Real , † 1945 in London ) was a Spanish educator and founder of the Instituto-Escuela .

He graduated from high school at El Escorial and studied law, philosophy and literature in Zaragoza and Madrid. In 1901 he received his doctorate with a dissertation on teaching in England and held a chair in Roman law at the University of Madrid (1905). From 1898 he was associated with the Institución Libre de Enseñanza (Free Institution for Education) and contributed with an extraordinary business acumen to the educational structure of the institutional work from his position as secretary of the Junta para Ampliación de Estudios e Investigaciones Científicas (Commission for scientific studies and Research) to systematize (1907). He possessed an absolute humanistic belief in the regenerative power of education and participated from the Ministry of Public Education in the creation of the Residencia de Estudiantes (literally: student residence) (1910) and the Centro de Estudios Históricos (Center for Historical Studies), both very important institutions for the Silver Age of Spanish culture, although his work was mainly concentrated in the Junta para Ampliación de Estudios . He suggested the Instituto-Escuela (1918), where the Institución Libre de Enseñanza introduced new ideas in the field of high school teaching between 1918 and 1936, consisting of new working methods, curricula and didactic and organizational innovations.

Castillejo assumes a global conception of Krausist origin. He said that teaching should include all subjects of a cyclical and gradual form, which is why one should remove the artificial boundary between elementary and high school education, all the more since they are impenetrable departments, since one tries to realize a total education.

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• La educación en Inglaterra (1930), new edition of his doctoral thesis.
• Historia del Derecho Romano (1935).
• Guerra de ideas en España (1976), first published in English.