The phenomenon of schooling can be analyzed from diverse approaches, some of them study it like a datum, some see it like a political decision, some others are interested in its social function as an inclusion factor; this work does not include those perspectives. It is better focus on the description of certain details of the beginning, for that reason the use of primary sources and documents of the epoch, to show the process that links the emergence of the public school with the wideness of the schooling like governmental mechanism, which means, a practice that describes the trifles of the school space and time, the geometrization of the infant body, the insistence on his quietness, stillness and obedience like principles of a schooling that can be understood and associated to a moral orthopaedics.
schooling; moral orthopaedics; school plans; body geometrization