Agustín Nieto Caballero
Agustín Nieto Caballero was a Colombian pedagogue who, in 1914, founded Gimnasio Moderno, a prestigious a private all-male traditional and liberal, primary and secondary school located in Bogotá, Colombia. It was founded in 1914 by various Colombians following the leading initiative of Agustín Nieto Caballero and co-founders José María Samper Brush, Daniel Samper Ortega, Tomás Rueda Vargas, and Ricardo Lleras Codazzi, freethinkers. The school is considered to be the oldest new school in South America in a time were education was dominated by the Church-ruled Catholic schools. Mr. Nieto Caballero was the preceptor of illustrious Colombians that studied at Gimnasio Moderno.
