This work is about the meaning of the citizen education that educators have been assuming on official documents since the events that were around while the Brazilian political openning. Using a short archeology/genealogy, the purpose is to show the intimacy between the State and pedagogical science. In different times and historical spaces, with many characters and contexts, citizenship has been an objective to be achieved in a school space. In Brazil, at the beggining of the 20th century, with New School professionals, or in the end of the same century, with the evocation of the name of Darcy Ribeiro for the construction of LDB, the meaning of citizen education go beyond the Comenius' utopia or even the pedagogical belief of Rousseau.
Education; citizenship; State