A central challenge for the School. Break with the doctrine of teaching everyone as if they were one

Abstract

This paper, written in the form of an essay, aims to present arguments that highlight a central challenge facing schools, and consequently education and teaching: breaking the doctrine of teaching everyone as if they were one. This is because, although there are pedagogical discourses that tend to present school education as the complete formation of the person, everyday life reveals that pedagogical activities tend to be designed and conducted to meet the demands of external exams. In this way, we have a school managed by a watertight curriculum, produced in a generic way, with a view to facilitating the maintenance of the status quo. But, if the school is the place of human formation, it must be guided from the inside out, respecting its students, establishing ways for life to be different; who knows, perhaps less guided by the neoliberal situation of every man for himself.