Furtado e a educação pela pedra, entranhada

Abstract

The importance of Celso Furtado for Brazilian history after World War II has been widely studied and recognized. Academic rigor, coupled with a tireless effort to promote a policy aimed at regional development in the Northeast of Brazil and in the country as a well, gave it international notoriety. However, I try to show in this essay, that Furtado had something earlier that served as his primary motivation. I refer to the experience, even as a child, in the Paraíba countryside. Something that impressed him well as described by the poet João Cabral de Melo Neto: education by stone, ingrained. In addition, the social context, typical of the 1950s, instigated in Brazil the desire for change, motivated by president Juscelino Kubitschek and characters like Archbishop Dom Hélder Câmara and Victor Nunes Leal to fight oligarchic structures. Thus, we seek to explore the relationship between the individual and society and its consequences in the political field, highlighting the importance and relevance of Furtado.