Abstract
This article deals with the issue of honor and penalties applied to students in schools. In the specific case of this text we sought to recognize the school materiality - "Book of Honor" from Lauro Müller School in Florianópolis/SC, dated from 1914 to 1972 (from now on also called Book) - the production of a sense of honor through historical and social devices in this particular school. A description of the book and an interpretation of its contentes have been done crossing it with other materials such as newspapers, educational legislation and school documents of the time. The Book as a device functioned as a normalizer of the desired school behaviors of the pupils, while honoring those whose social status already gave them "honor".
Keywords:
honor; material culture in school; punishment