In Brazil, the contemporary youth's condition is produced by the recent expansion of schooling opportunities and by the diversity of experiences that young people produce in social instances that are different from the traditional institutions of social reproduction. The schools to which they have access do not produce effective quality because they work based on representations that have little to do with real teenagers and young people. Thus, in the case of Brazil, one must relativize the motto that school education « makes youth » and consider that the modern youth's condition will only be attained when it becomes possible to combine the universalization of primary and secondary schools and the quality that this condition requires, allowing young people to live the integration in the work universe as experimentation and not in a compulsory way, based on another social model that garantees the ideals of universalization, the rights to school and work to all the young people.
Young people; School education; Work; Experience