Without losing sight of the links of Congressman Carlos Lacerda with the pecuniary interests of the private schools during the course of the Guidelines and Bases Act (LDB) in the parliament (1958-1959), the article highlights the connections between the semantics of the substitutives presented by this UDN (National Democratic Union Party) politician with the catholic political culture of that historical period, showing that the thesis of the interest disguises some dynamics that must be observed in the studies on the political history of education.
Catholic educational thought; Guidelines and Bases Act; Carlos Lacerda; political culture; politics semantics