The aim of this research is from the teachers necrologies analyses - published in the Jornal dos professores, official organ from the Paulistas Teaching Centre, from 1980 to 1990 - apprehend the ways of classification and the Paulista teaching society as well as its points of view and limits criteria, represented into the necrologies by signs that show the quality and value of a person. It also clarifies the mechanism used to fix the moral pattern from this field, embodied in the disappeared people.
