This article is aimed at arguing about possible impacts of writings on the History of Philosophy on writing on the History of Education, from the analysis of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's conceptions of history and its writing. In this study Hegel is conceived as an author who synthesized and spread a conception of history that can be seen as dispersed and fragmented in the historiographical culture of the nineteenth century. In a conceptual and methodological way, he reaffirmed the immemorial beliefs in virtuosity and the enlightening role of ideas (Spirit). He also produced an interpretation of the past which colud reduce the feeling of cultural laceration by conciliating history, ontology and logic. This paper explores the heuristic potential of the Hegelian view, though without empirically analyzing its effects on the Brazilian education historiography.
History of Education; History of Philosophy; Hegel; historiography