The tale Father against mother and the movie How much it costs or is it for kilo?: filosofical reflections against the continuity of the same in Brazil’s public education

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Abstract: This article has as purpouse reflect about the history of philosophy teaching in Brazil and the current philosophy teaching Mass education and based on the Doutor Odilon Loures State School, in the city of Bocaiuva, Minas Gerais State, And third grade high school students of classes 1 and 2 of the mentioned school. In order to think It over, weekly meetings have been proposed for the students to think about history of the education in Brazil and how, in a mass education school, it could reproduce the same historical inequality. For this, literary and audiovisual resources have been used, as the narrative Pai contra mãe, by Machado de Assis (1906) to treat the social relationships matter guided by the inequality on enslaving period; the film Quanto vale ou é por quilo? (2005), from the diretor Sérgio Bianchi, for the philosophic analysis of established relations on nowadays society as a maintaining of historical inequality from slavery, but with a different approach. This research pursuits to show that the teaching of philosophy could think through the historical brazilian problems by the produced reflections on the nacional sphere, being literary or cinematographic, and the signicant changes may occur on an small context of a classroom and the stablished relationship made between teacher and student.