in the life-long debate of the origin and purpose of artistic creativity, the sensibility and the intellectual wealth that reading offers is often debated and analyzed - questions and concerns about how reading can help people to connect and stimulate their ability to cope with social and cultural differences, as well as to develop noble attitudes towards their equals, is something centro educacional anísio teixeira - ceat pursues.

november 5th is culture and science day and it is dedicated to the birth of brazilian statesman, jurist, essayist, and civil liberties leader rui barbosa de oliveira.

one of the most brilliant minds of his time, ruy barbosa was a lawyer, a politician, diplomat, writer, philologist, translator and a speaker - notably, he was one of the organizers of the republic, and co-author of the constitution of the first republic with prudente de morais.