Rural Education as Reported by School Administrators from São Paulo in
the 1930s and 1940s

Macioniro Celeste-Filho
(Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), Campus de Bauru, Brazil)

Abstract: In the 1930s and 1940s, the school system was consolidated in new institutional organization in the State of São Paulo, Brazil. School administrators, the regional teaching delegates organized in a new level the primary education in this period. In urban areas, school groups were the model to be followed. However, how the rural schools were? This paper will present the vision of these teaching delegates about the calamitous situation of the rural education in São Paulo during this period. This text will address the conflict between the everyday reality of the feasible school system and the targeted ideal for rural education in São Paulo. The source material utilized for this study contemplates the reports of the school administrators preserved in the Public Archives of the State of São Paulo.

Key words: rural schools, isolated schools, history of education, primary education of the State of São Paulo