sentences:  For him, students were the axis around which all political and intellectual movements had turned throughout history.This gave rise to his first book "El Estudiante de la Mesa Redonda" (The Student of the Round Table, 1932), in which he speaks of history as a "tavern" with the students sitting at a single table, drinking, recounting their deeds and laughing at everybody else.He continued his fight for students' rights during his brief tenures as Minister of Education in 1942 and 1945-46.