Abstract
In the field of the History of Education, which has been consolidating, and which has the intellectuals as objects, several of them are authors that attempt to unveil their meanders giving them body, including a methodological bias. I aim in this study to highlight ideas, propositions and practices of Tobias Barreto de Menezes, one of the exponent authors from the Brazil's eight hundred, as well as to understand the educational questions of that period, specially in the Northeast of Brazil. In this meaning, the undertaken analysis aims to articulate the main expressions of this author in favor of female higher education and of the education for work with a view to a modern Brazil.
Keywords:
Brazilian education; women's higher education; education for work; history of intellectuals; Tobias Barreto de Menezes; nineteenth century