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{{wp|Compulsory education}} during the first few years of the ''Estado Social'' was established at the original span of six years as it was when it had first reached the short-live [[Delepasian Kingdom]] in 1852 before being raised to eight years. The chaos and instability in the decades after the fall of the Delepasian Kingdom prevented the Delepasian polities from effectively enforcing the eight-year period. The 1937 constitution states that the purpose of public education is to: "aid in the physical and intellectual reinvigoration of one's faculties, as well as to formulate character and instill not just professional value but also all civic and traditional moral values that define the character of the new republic".

Pascual had nominated his friend and Rector of the [[University of Adouka]], Juan Marquez, to serve as the new Minister of Instruction in 1941. In that same year, Marquez's ministry had altered its name to that of Ministry of National Education, which included the formation of a National Board of Education. The main goal of the nascent National Board of Education was to serve as a main research body for the Minister and to inform him in all matters that are within the realms of both education and culture. In nearly all sections of this Board, representation was granted for both parents and educators with the sole exceptions being within the cultural relations and scientific research sections. The Board replaced the Superior Council for Instruction as well as the National Board of Antiquities and Archaeology, among other consulting boards.

Another event of note during Marquez's tenure was the creation of the [[Children of Santiago]], the Grand Education Plan, and the adoption of a single, nationally-standardised {{wp|textbook}} for each grade.

The Children of Santiago was established in 1941, with its founding documents defining it as a "national and pre-military organisation that can stimulate the fundamental development of the physical and intellectual capacities of the nation's youth, to formulate their character as well as their devotion to the Delepasian identity, thus putting them into conditions where they are able to effectively compete for its defense and honour".

The Model Education Plan was a masterplan for the establishment of a robust school network that would be made uniform based on their given region, that would be made compliant to the fullest extent of the teaching and hygienic standards as were established by this point. The buildings were designed so as to be able to handle certain modifications that were intended to reflect the differences found in climate, available resources, and the processes of construction pertaining to each region. The plan would not be approved until 1944, but it did begin almost immediately after its approval was secured. This new education plan would outlast Marquez's tenure, lasting for seventeen years and going through six phases before being replaced by the "New Model Plan" in 1961. The number of primary schools had more than doubled by the time the "New Model Plan" was established.

According to education statistics in 1952, over 80 percent of preteens were literate, but just over five percent of them were able to complete the six years of compulsory education; many of them had to cease their studies on account of their parents, who were often impoverished types who needed their children for farm work or to enter into the job market at a young age so as to help the family out financially. To tackle this abysmal completion rate, the Ministry of National Education launched a multi-pronged Plan for the People's Education that was designed to reduce both adolescent and adult illiteracy while making sure that all children were able to complete the mandatory years of schooling as required by law. This meant that strictly-enforced fines were introduced to be levied onto noncompliant parents under threat of escalation into imprisonment for further noncompliance. Adult illiteracy was tackled through the use of {{wp|night school|night schools}}.

In 1956, compulsory education for all regardless of gender was finally raised from six to eight years under strict enforcement.

By the late 1960s, Rosaria had succeeded in pulling itself out of the educational abyss in which it had long found itself for the past century: illiteracy among children of school age had virtually disappeared, and adult illiteracy had been slashed down to one-quarter of its original rate; the Plan for the People's Education was a huge success.

In 1974, compulsory education for all was raised from eight to ten years.

In 1990, [[Alejandro Vargas]] was appointed by then-new prime minister [[Nicolas Torres]] to become the last Minister of National Education for the ''Estado Social'' regime. The next year, Vargas went on TV to present two highly ambitious projects that would not only reform the school system, but also higher education. The [[Delepasian Memoerial University]] would be recognised shortly afterward, with Vargas's greatest achievement being launched in mid-1993 under the new "Basic Guidelines for Delepasian Education", which was designed to provide certain democratic reforms for the regime's education system, itself followed by a decree that established new universities, politechnical schools, and superior schools. "Nursery schools" were introduced at the same time, intended to prepare toddlers for primary school, which also necessitated increasing the amount of years for compulsory education from ten to thirteen years and legally requiring parents to send their children to nursery school at the age of three. Less than a year later, the [[Velvet Revolution]] would take place, ending the ''Estado Social'', but not the basic framework of the modern education system in Rumahoki.