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The text, in the form of an essay, is anchored by transcriptions of pronouncements by Paulo Freire and Darcy Ribeiro to reflect on the dimensions of time and space in curent practices of integral education. Almost thirty years later, we see ourselves through situations that remind us of the reality of the past. However, more recently, as in the case of the program "Mais Educação", there have been assays in the field of social policies to address the dilemma of expanding time and widening the scope of the search for alternatives to educate children and adolescents who are worse off socially. We point out that the management of time and of the formative spaces through the curriculum is a key issue in the construction of institutional proposals that lead to this enlargement as a strategy to guarantee the right to a critical, integrative and problematizing education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The theme that we propose here is only possible because we live in the time and space in which we live. We live in it, here and now. If we were in the post-World War II period, we might possibly be discussing the "mass schooling" or, if we were in the period of May 1968, we would be debating the "university contestation." Today, however, since life offers us other opportunities, we discuss the role of education in the light of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, aware of its role in the integral development of the person. This new way of understanding education makes the world take a qualitative leap, when conceiving itself as a function of the personal development of each human being. We arrive at the real epicenter of the earthquake that shakes education and will require profound changes to the school subsystem within the education system. The school thus has the responsibility to adapt the curriculum to its students and to take options that it considers more effective in order to guarantee the success of the students - of all the students -, especially of those that manifest some type of fragility. In the article that we propose to develop, we intend to rethink not exclusively the school system - that is determinant in the formation of the person and that we will analyze by way of the school diversity -, but the educational system as a whole and we will propose that it goes farther, more to the concrete and further to the bottom to be truly inclusive, as is demanded today in contemporary societies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]