Abstract:Current news demonstrates that the development of Brazil will rely on investments in basic education and a tax reform. However, this news is unresolved old history, since Claude Henri Gorceix, founder of the School of Mines, reported 143 years ago that he was worried about the deplorable situation of the existing graded and high school education in Brazil. He said: "Without primary education, there is no secondary education; without secondary education, there is no superior education; and without superior educ… Show more
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