Understanding the education passes inevitably think about all those who have contributed to the renewal of teaching practices. Meet each of the protagonists is to understand the entire education from the obstacles that each had to overcome. With this article we want to understand the contribution of António Sérgio for renewal of education in the first half of the 20th century in Portugal. We used as sources conferences, letters, doctrinal texts and essays. The descriptors that we used in the analysis were critique of traditional pedagogy, qualitative pedagogy, self-government and school-municipality, infantile and primary education. In conclusion, the author was a strong opponent to the traditional teaching and great booster of an education based on self-government.
António Sérgio; self-government; pedagogy; renewal of teaching