During the colonial era i.e. pre 1961 years, the only schools that were available for villagers, were Escolas Primarias, which taught ;pupils how to read and write in Portuguese language, elementary arithmetic and some history of Portugal like O Navegador and O Conquistador. These schoold had four classes,primeira classe, segunda classe, primeiro grau and segundo grau, that is altogether four years of primary school. Each class had a Professor in charge, who was a Licenciado na Pedagogia Infantil from Escola Normal de Panjim. These glamorous intellectuals were called Professores das Escolas Primarias and hailed mostly from bamonn and bhatkar families and hence were lions of the local society. There were a few English medium schools in towns, primary cum secondary, whose teachers were mostly B.A.s and B.Sc.s and who taught in addition to English language , subjects like History , Geography, Algebra, Geometry, Physics and Chemistry but for the Goan society they were ordinary teachers only. Last but not the least , after priests, doctors and teachers, were the Govt.
employees and were known as Funcionarios do Governo do Estado da India Portuguesa.
