Abstract

This article is part of the process of problematization on the privatization of education in Latin America with a special focus on the Chilean case. It analyzes elements of the Latin American context in the middle of the 20th century when States promote the idea of human capital through the growth of their education systems and productivity as a State reason. The families of the continent grow the promise that through access to education the long-awaited social mobility will be achieved. We confirm that at the beginning of the 21st century this promise falls only on the shoulders of families being left to the market.