The main objective of this work is to indicate some questions concerning the role of education when it faces the capitalist society. It is important to emphasize that it is not an empirical work, but it comes from reflection, an attempt of thinking about the relation education-work-capital. In this direction, we ask: Which is the meaning of education when dealing with the logic of the capital? The education role as "vehicle" for new proposals of strategies elaboration for the conscientious change of learners is fundamentally important. In order to consolidate this attempt, we use the theoretical support of authors as: Gadotti (1995), Konder (1981), Marx (1983, 1989, 2002), Marx and Engels (1984, 1993), Mészáros (2005), Pires (1997) and Schaff (1967). We understand that a kind of education that is not merely for formation of future "alienated" people, but the education that does not accept the social reproductions and that takes into consideration the social-historical character of the individual, is crucial.
education; work; alienation