Os clássicos na formação docente: reflexões acerca do PNE (2014)

The article that is now presented bring to the debate the goals of the new National Education Plan (NEP), dealing with teacher training, examined in the light of two classics of medieval thought, John Salsbury (XII century) and Bonaventure of Bagnoregio (thirteenth century ). We do not wish, therefore, to emphasize that the writings of these two thinkers from the Middle Ages are able, by themselves, to make us understand the NEP and directly influence the routing to be given to education in the present time, as if the present could be understood from the from the assumptions of the past. Indeed, our first intention is to bring important lessons to understand better what it means to be a teacher with a view to an education of excellence. For that, we use the theoretical and methodological principles of Social History, which asserts that the man in time is the very object of history as science.