This article makes an analysis of the Catholic education speech spread in the decade of 1930's . For that, the Pierre Bourdieu's analytical concepts are approached, to know, the habitus notions,1 strategy, field and cultural capital. The objective is to look for to elucidate the reasons and the discursive mechanisms that they engendered the Catholic intellectual's speeches regarding the New School and of John Dewey's philosophical-education conceptions. Following Bourdieu's analytical outlines, the speech it can be considered as strategy, mechanism for which they looked for to conserve the habitus of the faculty consonants with the interests of the group.
discursive strategies; habitus; education field