Education in Honduras

The national education is secular and founded on the essential principles of democracy, inculcating and fomenting strong nationalist sentiments in the students and tying them directly to the economic and social development of the nation.

[2] The eradication of illiteracy is currently the primary task of the government, making it the responsibility of all Hondurans to help achieve this goal as well.

Before the reforms of 1957, education was the exclusive privilege of the upper class, who could afford to send their children to private institutions.

It was only when the government of Ramón Villeda Morales (1957–63) introduced reforms that led to the establishment of a national public education and ended a school construction program, that education became accessible to the general population.

The education reforms of the 1950s meant that by 1957, schools were no longer available to the wealthy, but costs are a problem to this day.