Rousseau and Marx – two “romantics” of the educational thought

Abstract

This article intend to inquire in a comparative study the evolution of the education in schools, in front of approaches purposed by classic theoreticians like Rousseau and Marx that, when applied in our days could be able to identify characteristics that can be analyzed by the point of view of others, the meaning of the ideas exposed of each researched author. In this article we considerate those authors like two “romantics” of the educational thought, safeguarded the differences in the historic context that they lived – the 18th and 19th centuries, respectively – by measures when they refused against models of their age like word dreamers, profound knowledge of their realities and historic unconformities subjects that reveal an authenticate society of the inequality but also they were able to propose with boldness a new social order.