Memória para a frente, e... o resto é lotaria dos exames: A reforma do ensino liceal em 1947

in 1947, the promulgation of a reforming grammar school (lycée) law, preceded and proceeded by major legal devices, fits in with the educational policy of the new state, which was then confronted with the problem of the secondary education identity, and especially of the grammar school (lycée). at the time, the national assembly was a political space where the speeches calling into evidence the measures of governance of oliveira salazar, and sometimes, simultaneously, made public the existing realities. furthermore, within the constraints which were imposed, the regularly press performed the main tool for a wider dissemination of the adopted policies. using as primary sources the historic archive of the ministry of education documentation, the national assembly meeting actes and press articles, with this study we seek to focus on: the process of 1947’s preparing reform, the contents of the speeches and the feelings of parliamentarians related to the functioning of the grammar school (lycée); the role played by some newspapers, with the publication of articles, studies and news that naturally contributed to the training and information of the public opinion on the meaning and value of the grammar school (lycée) and its reform.