ABSTRACT
This text analyses the decisive relations, for western culture, between mimesis and education. I assume these terms are actually indissociable in the performance of the educator’s act, at least when one understands that, throughout the unfolding of the formative efforts during the western course in the last thousand years, the polysemic meaning of the term mimesis has greatly overcome its consecrated translation into “imitation”, defining crucial aspects of education.
Keywords:
Knowledge; Artistic Representation; Formation; History of Education