O complexo da educação e a formação do ser social

Abstract

This article discusses the primary function of education and its consequences in class societies. For this, we deal with the primary function of education, which is to enable the singular individual to appropriate human culture. Only through a process of education does the singular individual become a participating member of the human race. This study is based on the works of Marx (2008); Ponce (2001); Freres (2008); Tonet (2012); Leontiev (1978); Maceno (2019); Manacorda (1992); Leacock (2019). We point out that with the division of society into classes, education continues to guarantee social reproduction, but the more elaborate knowledge as well as the wealth produced are appropriated by the dominant classes. Therefore, we deal with the existing disparity between the ruling class and the exploited class in slave, feudal and capitalist modes of production with regard to access to education. With that, to the dominant class, education passes from a basic formation contributing to the continuation of its status, to the exploited class the formation is basic and interests belonging to the dominant class are still inculcated in their subjectivity. We conclude that regardless of the historical moment, education continues to guarantee social reproduction, but in class societies the access of the dominated class to the intellectual, spiritual content accumulated historically is denied as much as possible.