Abstract

SILVA FILHO, Adauto Lopes da  and  LOPES, Fátima Maria Nobre. The Brazilian education paradox: an antagonistic relation between the principle of reality and the principle of performance. Rev. Diálogo Educ. [online]. 2018, vol.18, n.59, pp.1022-1040.  Epub Feb 05, 2020. ISSN 1981-416X.  https://doi.org/10.7213/1981-416x.18.059.ds02.

Development of capitalist and technological society brings a paradox: the potentialities of human reason are developed at the same time this reason becomes an instrument of power and manipulation. Taking this and the thoughts of Herbert Marcuse, this article aims to demonstrate that this very paradox of our society, which determines the individuals’ actions and thinking, is also seen in Brazilian education, for it expresses itself in the antagonistic relationship between the principle of reality and the principle of performance supported by surplus-repression, since at the same time that this education defends a democratic and equality-based formation, it also leads subjects to alienation and suffering to perform its formation with a commodifying character. Despite this paradox which is established in society and education, Marcuse defends the possibility to break the domination that lies herein, in order to counteract surplus-repression, in sight for an emancipatory principle of reality.

Keywords : Technological society; Paradox; Education; Principle of reality; Principle of performance.

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