The National University of Education goes back to July 6, 1822, when the Liberator Jose de San Martin, by Supreme Decree, created the first Normal School of Teachers, date which resulted in the celebration of Teacher's Day. Officially inaugurated two months later, he began his fruitful and eventful life as a forger of tutors for the first years of independent Peru. Its first director was the English citizen Diego Thompson, who introduced the educational model called Lancastrian system in the preparation of teachers. According to this system, the most advanced students became monitors and contributed by classroom practice to the best training of his classmates.