This text explores the meanings and senses of autobiographical travel reports written by three professors, members of the first official educators' committee visiting Europe at the dawn of the Brazilian Republican regime. Their goal was to study the national education systems of several countries. This experience reflected concerns regarding the improvement of Brazilian public education. At that time, trips organized by the "Revista Pedagógica" (Pedagogic Magazine), published by "Pedagogium", were organized in order to study the "other", resulting in different ways of intervention and change proposals for the Brazilian educational system. The present work examines - through the mandatory impersonal writing style - more than mere impressions, conclusions and proposals for school organization, or the organization of teaching staff, school material, school architecture and aspects relating to teaching staff wages; above all, it examines the traces of intimacy and world views of the traveling professors.
Educators' Trips; Traveling Reports; Own Writings