The present study proposes an analysis about function of the rural school in Brazil in the context of the expansion project of the urban values and the concomitant process of industrialization that deepens in the second half of the 20th century. In the analysis of those who were thinking the educational policy of the Brazilian State, the rural primary school should become a center of irradiation of new values of industrialism to incorporate and reflect herself such values. The historical context in which occurs this process is characterized by the Brazilian State's transformation into a promoter of a new economic, political and social setting in Brazil, being the axis of its expansion effort of the country's industrial sector. This article concludes that the rural primary school expansion and reconfiguration project had like the objective the extension of typical habits, attitudes and behaviors of the industrial civilization.
rural school; State; industrialism