Abstract
The subject of this article has to do with discussions on higher education which were published in the newspaper Diário dos Campos between 1947 and 1950. Greater emphasis is placed on an analysis of the text We Need Higher Education, written by Mario Lima Santos (1947), on the issues about when the Pro-Faculty of Philosophy of Ponta Grossa Commission (1948-1949) was created, that resulted in the operating license for that institution, and on the criticisms to the political group belonging to the Social Democratic Party, which used the foundation of the Faculty of Philosophy as an electoral motto (1950). This article bases itself on Diário dos Campos and on Intellectual History to reconstitute the cultural atmosphere of Ponta Grossa as well as the action taken by the intellectual and political community which resulted in the organization of higher education in the city. Emphasis was also placed on the Brazilian intellectual movement, which professed the expansion of the university system and believed in the power of academic formation to prepare professionals with specialized knowledge and in the intellectual elites to take over directive roles in different spheres of the social world.
Keywords:
higher education; Diário dos Campos; Intellectual History