Joan Romero, the Professor Who Escaped the Field for a Scholarship and Now Pays Them Out of His Pocket: “the Gap Today Is to Be Able to Do a Master’s Degree”

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Joan Romero’s life was aimed at working in the countryside. His father was the landlord of a farmhouse in Albacete and he had neither resources nor contacts. But the boy “used” to study. One of those teachers who could change a life insisted on the commitment that he should continue. And finally, the boy who showed an early interest in history achieved one of the few scholarships-salary of that time, fulfilled his dream of being a teacher and bu…