Where should we locate the actuality and importance of the adventure of The ignorant schoolmaster in the Brazilian experience? As a point of departure, Jacotot has established equality - a stumbling block that determines different reactions. Within the "pedagogized society", the history of public school cannot be dissociated from the eccentric path described by the demand for political equality of its citizens. Our educational experiences have been constructed on the basis of inequality and, together with them, our ideals, our expectations, our conceptions of teaching, learning, teacher, student, knowledge. As a stumbling stone, the injunction to produce equality returns us to our usual institutional practices, our received ways of being teachers, all of which merely feed our non-egalitarian fiction. But what if starting from equality meant for the teacher, for once, starting from... his own reality?
Emancipation; Equality; Pedagogized society; Public school; Teacher