Editing History of Mexico (section)

===Education===
[[File:2686 women working in cigarette factory.jpg|thumb|upright|Making cigarettes in the [[El Buen Tono]] factory, Mexico City]]

The modernizers insisted that public schools and secular education should replace religious schooling by the Catholic Church.<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Schell | first1 = Patience A. | year = 2004 | title = Nationalizing Children through Schools and Hygiene: Porfirian and Revolutionary Mexico City | journal = The Americas | volume = 60 | issue = 4| pages = 559–587 | jstor=4144491 | doi=10.1353/tam.2004.0072| s2cid = 145354431 }}</ref> They reformed elementary schools by mandating uniformity, secularization, and rationality. These reforms were consistent with international trends in teaching methods. To break the traditional peasant habits that were seen to hinder industrialization, reforms emphasized children's punctuality, assiduity, and health.<ref>{{cite book|author=Claudia Agostoni|title=Monuments of Progress: Modernization and Public Health in Mexico City, 1876–1910|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jYzWhnckLUcC&pg=PA158|year=2003|publisher=UNAM|page=158|isbn=978-0-87081-734-2}}</ref> In 1910, the [[National University of Mexico|National University]] was opened.