Escola e laço fraterno

Starting with a brief consideration on the movements that presently claim the priority of family education over school education, and those that reclaim the possibility of an education fully ran in a home territory, this paper aims to recover some of the civilizatory characteristics that mark the advent of the societies of the democratic modernity to, from this point, retrieve what would be the distinctive trait of the Republican school. The identification of this trait that distinguishes the dreamed school in the advent of the democratic modernity allows us, at a second moment, to confront the argument that serves as a basis for these movements’ claims. At the same time, it allows us to question some of the assumptions from the ideologues of an “education for the democratic sociability” – who, often, end for considering that a school education committed with the promotion of the democratic experience passes, first and foremost, through the affirmation of school as an institution implicated with the production of a common filiation.