The article discusses the arguments that propose the privatization as a strategy for education; shows data on both the evolution of the private education worldwide and the national diversity int the " public x private education" relation. It analizes the role played by the private sector in giving grassroots acess to education. It raises the hypothesis that the efficiency of education might depend less on the public character and more on its degree of autonomy and institutional identity. It concludes by opening the discussion about the educational autonomy and raising the doubts caused by this estrategy.
