An important thinker in his field, he pioneered the notion that children's intellectual development occurs as a function of social interactions and living conditions. It came to be discovered by Western academic circles many years after his death, which occurred in 1934, from tuberculosis, at the age of 37 years.
The Law of Guidelines and Bases (Law 9394/96) – LDB – is the organic and general law of Brazilian education. As the name implies, it dictates the guidelines and foundations of the organization of the educational system. According to ex-minister Paulo Renato Souza – who along with then-president Fernando Henrique Cardoso sanctioned the LDB that runs until today – “the most interesting thing about the LDB is that it runs away from what is, unfortunately, the most common in Brazilian legislation: to be very detail. The LDB is not detail-oriented, it gives a lot of freedom to schools, to the education systems of municipalities and states, setting general standards. I think it's really an exemplary law.” ¹
The LDB - Law of Guidelines and Bases is a fundamental normative instrument for the definition of a national system of education, as it is through it that all the instrumentalization and standardization of educational processes takes place. nationals.
