This work aims at discussing practices in Physical Education classes. From a Critical Theory, a reflection about the limits of these practices in school is proposed. Before a possibility of education emancipation, these practices contribute to the maintenance in society. There are people self-converted into objects. From Herbert Marcuse, Max Horkheimer and Theodore Adorno's works, resistance and critical potential of corporal practices in school are searched for.
Physical Education in the school; corporal practices and human formation; Physical Education and competition