Jesús Reyes Heroles, born in 1921, whose home had no books, left Tuxpan to find a secondary school. He went to Tampico, where he found one. A good student and obsessive reader, he had to migrate again to San Luis Potosí in search of a high school. Later, in Mexico city, he entered law school, living in a horrible place. Determined to move forward, he obtained a scholarship in Buenos Aires and embarked on his postgraduate studies. In the past, the possibility of broadening one’s life spectrum through education and economic growth existed. No more.