History of School in São Paulo and in Brazil
Maria Luiza Marcílio
Imprensa Oficial
485 pages
ISBN: 85-7060-331-2
This book, written by Maria Luiza Marcílio, looks in details of
a history which is the main cause of the Brazilian backwardness,
and also alarms about the future.
— Roberto Pompeu de Toledo
With a strong argumentation based in carefull history research,
and a throughout analysis on the facts, obtained through a
rigorous exam of the goods and bads on our teaching,
Maria Luiza Marcílio brings to the reader a wide comprehension
on the problems of the education in Brazil. Its a terrific
book, of great scientific value, and indispensable to those
who see in the education of good quality the key to success
in the knowledge society.
— José Pastore
This work constitutes a updated and complete radiography
of the hard progression of the Brazilian educational project,
and an analytic and perceptive progress of the problems
which characterizes the frame of the education in our
days. Thanks to the wealthness of informations, to a
pondered and objective judgement and to the logic
articulation between historic narrative and conclusions,
it has garanted future as indispensable guide to retake
the interrupted building of the universal school,
democratic and of good quality to all Brazilians.
— Rubens Ricupero